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.
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.
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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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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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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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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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.
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God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
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