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 NORWICHAs 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.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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 is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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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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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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