Christopher Krupinski

“This spirit gradually decayed, not being nourished by prayer. I became cold toward God.”
― Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

“The devil is outrageous only against prayer, and those that exercise it; because he knows it is the true means of taking his prey from him. He lets us undergo all the austerities we will. He neither persecutes those that enjoy them nor those that practice them. But no sooner does one enter into a spiritual life, a life of prayer, but they must prepare for strange crosses. All manner of persecutions and contempts in this world are reserved for that life.”
― Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

“A person truly humbled permits not anything to put him in a rage. As it is pride which dies the last in the soul, so it is passion which is last destroyed in the outward conduct. A soul thoroughly dead to itself, finds nothing of rage left.”
― Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

“Be patient in prayer, even though you should do nothing all your life but wait in patience, with a heart humbled, abandoned, resigned, and content for the return of your Beloved. Oh, excellent prayer! How it moves the heart of God, and obliges Him to return more than anything else!”
― Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon