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 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.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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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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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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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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If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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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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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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