Our 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 NORWICHGod willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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The 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.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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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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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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As 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.
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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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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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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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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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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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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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