But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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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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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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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 goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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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.
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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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For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.
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He 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!
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