Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe 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.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
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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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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
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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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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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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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He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.
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God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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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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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
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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.
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The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
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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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