Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

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

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness—temporal, spiritual, and eternal — consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

We must surrender our whole being to Christ Jesus, and cease to live any longer in ourselves, that He may become our life; that being dead, " our life may be hid with Christ in God."

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon