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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 Norwich

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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Fall Love Ourselves Weakness
Truth 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 NORWICH

God Happiness Holy Truth Wisdom Wonderful
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Believe Empty Feeling Joy Prayer Sick True Weakness Yourself
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Better God Goodness Love Myself
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Ghost God Grace Holy Mystery Prayer Soul Unity
Cheerful 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 NORWICH

Cost Count Heart Person
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Born End God Mom Ourselves True
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Himself Love Peace
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Goodness Live Myself Woman
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Blame God Ourselves Service Stand True
He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Appearance Bliss Himself Love
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’.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Kind Myself Necessary Sin
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 NORWICH

Comfortable Feeling Himself Yourself
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Self Love Worth
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Gratitude Joy
It 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

God Love Need

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.

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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.

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