Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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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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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 I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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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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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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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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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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