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Jeanne Guyon

Born

in Montargis, France

April 13, 1648

Died

June 09, 1717

Genre

Religion & Spirituality

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Jeanne Marie Bouvières de la Mothe Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was the leader of the Quietist movement in France. The foundation of her Quietism was laid in her study of St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, and Thomas a Kempis. At age 16, she married Jacques Guyon, a wealthy man of weak health, 22 years her senior. Until his death in 1676, her life was an unhappy one, partly due to the difference in their ages, and partly due to a tyrannical mother-in-law. Her public career as an evangelist of Quietism began soon after her widowhood.

Her first labors were spent in the diocese of Geneva, at Anecy, Gex, and Thonon, and in Grenoble. In 1686 she went to Paris, where she was at first imprisoned for her opinions, in the Convent of S ...more

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	Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ (Library of Spiritual Classics, Volume 2) 4.46 avg rating — 1,171 ratings — published 1685 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short Method of Prayer 4.25 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 2007 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experiencing God Through Prayer by Jeanne Guyon, Donna C. Arthur (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1984 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autobiography Of Madame Guyon 4.02 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1974 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intimacy with Christ: Her Letters Now in Modern English by Jeanne Guyon, Gene Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.41 avg rating — 99 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiritual Torrents 4.34 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2013 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Union With God: Including 22 of Madam Guyon's Poems 4.09 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of the Bride 4.45 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madame Jeanne Guyon: Experiencing Union with God Through Inner Prayer & the Way and Results of Union with God 4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters of Madam Guyon 4.55 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2009 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Jeanne Guyon (?)

“We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.”
― Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

tags: materialism, self-denial, simplicity

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“My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude”
― Madame Guyon, Autobiography Of Madame Guyon

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“A person truly humbled permits not anything to put him in a rage. As it is pride which dies the last in the soul, so it is passion which is last destroyed in the outward conduct. A soul thoroughly dead to itself, finds nothing of rage left.”
― Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, The Autobiography of Madame Guyon

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