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)

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

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