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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHere saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
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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But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
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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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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God’s will.
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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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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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