That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBut for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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.
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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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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
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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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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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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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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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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.
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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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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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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: ‘Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well’.
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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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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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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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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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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 that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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