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 NORWICHUntil I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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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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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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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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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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As 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.
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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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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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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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