Indeed, having no other choice, but that up ardently reaching after Him, of dwelling ever with Him, and in sinking into nothingness before Him, we should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubts; and none of these should, for one moment, retard our course.
–Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717)