Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
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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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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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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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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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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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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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The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
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The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
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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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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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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 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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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