The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIn God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.
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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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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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Everything has being through the love of God.
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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
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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.
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