The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe 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!
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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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 shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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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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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
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