Guyon

[MostlyConfused]

“…the Christian, beholding himself in the state of a feeble child, soiled and sorely bruised by repeated falls, destitute of strength to stand or of power to cleanse himself, should lay his deplorable situation open to his Fathers’ view in humble confusion, occasionally intermingling a word or two of love and grief, and then again sinking into silence before Him. Then, continuing the Lords’ Prayer, let him beseech this King of Glory to reign in him, abandoning himself to God and acknowledging His right to rule over him, so that He may do it.”
Madame Guyon

 

[MostlyConfused]

By means which seem to destroy His church, He establishes it.

 

[MostlyConfused]

We do not perish but for want of trusting Him.

 

[Laurina]

"But what caused my greatest hurt was, that I chose to be among those that caressed me, in order to corrupt and spoil me."

-Guyon (chapter 4)

 

[Laurina]

"...let the dull or hard hearts which can retain nothing come to the practice of prayer and they shall become wise."

-Guyon (chapter 5, page 25)

 

[Laurina]

(Chapter 7, page 38)
"Thy designs over me were wildly different from the expectations of those about me; it being Thy determination to make me both the object of Thy mercy and the victim of Thy justice."

-Guyon

 

[Laurina]

"...it is on nothing in man that God establishes His greatest works, --... He destroys that He might build; for when He is about to rear His sacred temple in us, He first totally razes that vain and pompous ediface, which human art and power had erected, and from its horrible ruins a new structure is formed, by His power only."

-Guyon (page 9)