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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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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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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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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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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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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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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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Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
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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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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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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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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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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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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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