Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
JULIAN OF NORWICHFor we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
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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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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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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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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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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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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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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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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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.
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