Rage of the Wolf is Changed

Before [purification, the soul] is full of its own judgment and its own will, but now it obeys like a child and finds no other will in itself. Before, it would have contested for a trifle; now it yields at once, not with reluctance and pain by way of practicing virtue, but as it were, naturally. Its own vices are vanished. This creature, so vain before, now loves nothing but poverty, littleness, and humiliation. Before, it preferred itself above everybody; now everybody above itself, having a boundless charity for its neighbor, to bear with his faults and weaknesses, in order to win him by love, which before it could not do but with very great constraint. The rage of the wolf is changed to the meekness of the lamb.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 115.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)