The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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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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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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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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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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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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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
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We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker’s marvellous love so fully.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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