Between God and the soul there is no between.
JULIAN OF NORWICHAs we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in 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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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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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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He 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.
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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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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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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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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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