In losing all the gifts, with all their supports, I found the Giver. In losing the sense and perception of You in myself, I found You, O my God.... Oh, poor creatures who pass all your time in feeding upon the gifts of God, and think in that to be the most favored and happy, how I pity you if you stop here, short of the true rest, and cease to go forward to God Himself, through the loss of those cherished gifts in which you now delight! ...[You] never enjoy God in all His fullness, which is a loss that cannot be perfectly known in this life.
Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 120.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)
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