Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
1648-1717
O my God, if one knew the value of prayer...
Prayer is nothing else than the pathway to Paradise,
and the pathway to Paradise is prayer -
but prayer of the heart, which everybody is capable of,
and not of those reasonings which are a play of the intellect.
Primary Sources:
OEuvres completes, 40 vols., Paris, 1789-91
Vie de Madame Guyon ecrite par elle-meme, 3 vols., 1791
Lettres chretiennes et spirituelles, ed., P. Poiret, 5 vols., 1768
Les Opuscules spirituelles, 2 vols., Cologne, 1704
Autobiography, tr. T.T. Allen, 2 vols., London, 1897
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer
Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ
A Guide to True Peace (with Molinos and Fenelon)
Union with God
Exodus or The Way Out
Revelation or Christ our Revelation
Song of Songs of Solomon (trans: James Metcalf, 1800 ed)
Spiritual Letters
The Letters of Madame Guyon (Selections by P.L. Upham, 1870)
Spiritual Torrents (trans A.W. Marston from 1790 French ed)
Spiritual Writings: Genesis, Spiritual Torrents, Letters, Song of Songs (1982 ed)
Secondary Sources:
T.C. Upham: Life, Religious Opinions and Experience of Madame de la Motte Goyon, 2 vols, N.Y., 1847
L.M. Francis: The Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guyon, Boston, 1832
H.T. Cheever; Correspondencies of faith and Views of Madame Guyon, N.Y., 1885