God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!
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Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
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Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
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All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
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God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
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Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
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Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
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The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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He [Jesus] did not say, ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,’ but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome.
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Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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