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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.

Julian of Norwich

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 NORWICH

Blame God Ourselves Service Stand True
The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Goodness Low Need Object Ourselves Prayer Reach
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Born End God Mom Ourselves True
He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Himself Worth
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Ground Life Live Love Ourselves
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Desire God Joy Natural Ourselves Willing
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Cost Count Heart Person
God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Clothes God Leaving Ourselves
Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Grace Growth Love Ourselves Prayer
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Earth Heaven Love Pain Suffering
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 NORWICH

Myself Necessary Sin Vision
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Himself Temper Travel
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Act Compassionate God Himself Kindness
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Angry Grace Himself Mercy Weakness Work
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Save Sin Soul
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Charity End Faith Hope Leadership

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