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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe 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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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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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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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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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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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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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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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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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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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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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