 My spirit, disenthralled from selfishness, became united with and lost in God, its Sovereign, who attracted it more and more to Himself. And this was so much the case, that I could seem to see and know God only, and not myself. .... It was thus that my...  The Life of Lady Guion - Page 264by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1772Full view - About this book
 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - Christian saints - 1804 - 518 pages
...gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities ; so was my soul lost in GOD, who communicated to it his qualities, having...inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves (or only live to themselves). THE joy which such a soul possesses... | |
 | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon - 1806 - 496 pages
...gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities ; so was my soul lost in GOD, who communicated to it his qualities, having drawn it out of all that ifchad of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Catholic authors - 1847 - 478 pages
...after a short time are so entirely united as to become one with it. It was thus that my soul was lost in God, who communicated to it his qualities, having...inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those, who, still remaining in the life of nature, are shut up in themselves. 25. " The joy, which... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - Mysticism - 1880 - 436 pages
...that I could seem to see and know God only, and not myself. .... It was thus that my soul was lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. O happy poverty, happy loss, happy nothing, which gives no less than God Himself in his own immensity,... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - Mysticism - 1888 - 404 pages
...that I could seem to see and know God only, and not myself. .... It was thus that my soul was lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. O happy poverty, happy loss, happy nothing, which gives no less than God Himself in his own immensity,... | |
 | Arthur Williamson - Church history - 1891 - 164 pages
...the case that I could seem to see and know God only, and not myself It was thus that my soul was lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own O happy poverty, happy loss, happy nothing, which gives me less than God Himself in His own immensity,... | |
 | James Bissett Pratt - Faith - 1906 - 354 pages
...case, that I could seem to see and know God only and not myself. ... It was thus that my soul was lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. ... O happy poverty, happy loss, happy nothing, which gives no less than God Himself in His own immensity... | |
 | Susie C. Stanley - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 310 pages
...gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it his qualities, having...inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.25 Guyon did not reconcile the... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1853 - 698 pages
...that I could seem to see and know God only, and not myself. . . . It was thus that my.soul was lost in God, who communicated to it his .qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own O happy poverty, happy loss, happy nothing, which gives no less than God himself in his own immensity... | |
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