Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
JULIAN OF NORWICHWhere do we begin? Begin with the heart.
JULIAN OF NORWICHLord 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’.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHCheerful 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 NORWICHEvery act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
JULIAN OF NORWICHOur Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHFor we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe [Jesus] did not say, ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,’ but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
JULIAN OF NORWICHOur 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 NORWICHIt is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHA great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe 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 NORWICHIt 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH