The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
JULIAN OF NORWICHGod willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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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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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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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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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
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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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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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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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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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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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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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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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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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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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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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