God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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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.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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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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That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.
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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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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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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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When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
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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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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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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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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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Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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