Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor? Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon More Quotes by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon More Quotes From Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon silence soul exercise How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon greatest-treasure self believe The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon powerful self discovery To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon refuse perfection Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon accepted sorrow ifs O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves! Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon selfishness may God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon joy war promise Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon states divine should
