Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe [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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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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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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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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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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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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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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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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