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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer 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.
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 NORWICHThe fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThis is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
JULIAN OF NORWICHGod willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHFor we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPeace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer unites the soul to God.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHere saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
JULIAN OF NORWICHWe are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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 NORWICHBut for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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 NORWICHUntil I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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