Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBut 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 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.
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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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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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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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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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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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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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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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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