The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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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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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
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Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
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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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Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
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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 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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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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