French Mystic Quotes

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Brother Lawrence

Élisabeth Leseur

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

God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.

Brother Lawrence

There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to discern it in ourselves, our lives would be transformed. If we could see it in others we would love even more him who is always in our midst, who acts in us, and who works marvels - these spiritual renewals that we shall understand only in eternity.

Élisabeth Leseur

For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

Elizabeth of the Trinity