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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer unites the soul to God.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.
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All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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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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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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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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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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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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.
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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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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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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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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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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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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.
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