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Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability of Christian veneration. She had an unsteady and disorganized childhood, w
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212 pages
Published
March 20th 2007
by Nuvision Publications
(first published June 1974)
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The subtitle says this: "Her Sole Crime was that of Loving God."
Not true. She was a whiner. Big time. Had a door mat personality, with a tendency to get praise Jesus if you stomped on her. Then she would gloat about it and after write how her gloating was not self-praise, and somehow excuse it. Her letters are boring, with a tendency to run on. I can prove it:
"For these several years past, it has seemed to me that my mind is so detached and absent from the body, that I do things as if I did the ...more
Not true. She was a whiner. Big time. Had a door mat personality, with a tendency to get praise Jesus if you stomped on her. Then she would gloat about it and after write how her gloating was not self-praise, and somehow excuse it. Her letters are boring, with a tendency to run on. I can prove it:
"For these several years past, it has seemed to me that my mind is so detached and absent from the body, that I do things as if I did the ...more
Feb 09, 2008
Mary
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Keeps me from forgetting about what I am supposed to do here on earth...
If there is somebody that has spoken to my soul and moved me deeply towards Christ, the Lover of my soul, it is Madame Guyon. This woman is amazing. I can read her biography over and over again and never get bored. I love her simplicity and way of praying. She is definitely a role model for me. To women like this I bow and sit at their feet listening to the truths of God. My mentor by all means! I used to have pictures of her all over my room LOL.
I read this as part of an online book club hosted by Renovarè. I read a newer translation but this book was a beautiful tale of a woman that found the immense blessings of God despite the suffering she endured. Given my present circumstance of dealing with an intense illness, it really meant a lot to me.
This is a difficult book to read, a bit like the book of Job in the Bible. It’s hard to believe the persecution that Christians within the 17th and 18th Centuries endured for their faith, but what’s even more shocking is that it was at the hands of people within their own families and within their own religious orders, within their church. These were people who acted in the most despicable of ways and yet believed themselves to be very religious and upright. Madame Guyon noted that in ancient la
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I can only hope to have half of Madame's faith in God and His purpose and will in our lives. She is the ultimate example of one who gave her whole heart and will, without reserve, to her God. You will be challenged in your spiritual life if you read this autobiography!
Feb 11, 2011
pianogal
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I think this chick could give Job a run for his money in the patience department. There was a decent amount of applicable information, but as a 21st woman (post feminism, post ERA, post women in the workplace), parts of it were difficult to read with Jeanne being so overtly submissive to authorities (mostly men) in her life. But times were different in the 1650s. It was what women did. Madame Guyon is still a good, solid example of Christianity.
If I could develop half the patience she has...
I am ...more
If I could develop half the patience she has...
I am ...more
Very good, somewhat enthralling, account of a 17th century French woman imprisoned for her religious beliefs. Although, at times, it's somewhat hard to follow (I suspect this is because of its translation from the original French) it still hits home that this sort of thing can happen to anyone, depending on "home politics" of time and place and how easily the populace can be stirred up against someone. Worth a look.
I felt sorry for Mme Guyon due to her troubles and tribulations, but really she could be more specific about certain persons' reasons for being so mean and cruel to her, apart from her being a woman of unconventional religious life and spirituality. But I'll read more of her stuff most definitely. Quietism FTW.
Aug 09, 2011
Joyce
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This is a different edition. Mine is by Moody Press, probably in the 1960s. 382 pages $1.35
It was my mother's, now my copy.
Jeanne Marie Guyon. Her sole crime was that of loving God.
Absolutely life-changing! hopefully...
Excellent! Go back and refresh often.
It was my mother's, now my copy.
Jeanne Marie Guyon. Her sole crime was that of loving God.
Absolutely life-changing! hopefully...
Excellent! Go back and refresh often.
She was a dynamic woman used greatly by the Lord. I enjoyed the book, because it showed the understanding of the Lord during the 1600's. The church has come a long way from where she was. I have found her prayer book and I am excited to read it soon...
Madame Guyon's life was an adventure. It was often very difficult but in the middle of it all, she and God carved out a powerful relationship.
A marytre for her Christian faith in the 1600's, this book makes me take stock of my own walk with Christ. Convicting yet encouraging.
I read this book at a spiritual turning point in my life and it ministered to me, especially the first half. At the latter end of the book I felt a disconnect and didn't really enjoy it. It seemed that her walk with God caused her to withdraw from life, the care of her children etc. and I don't believe that is what God wants from us at all. However, I did learn important lessons on submission and obedience to God and constant communion with Him that correlates directly with the scripture. Those
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Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism.
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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”
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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.”
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Good thing the cover isn't available because with a subtitle like that I picture one ...more
Oct 18, 2009 01:14PM
Good thing the cover isn't available because with a subtitle like that I ...more
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