He [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 [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 NORWICHAnything less then God, ever me wanteth.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBut for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBecause 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.
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 NORWICHPray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
JULIAN OF NORWICHTruth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIt is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBut 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
JULIAN OF NORWICHOur Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
JULIAN OF NORWICHLove was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHGod loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIn God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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