God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIf 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.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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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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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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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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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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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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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.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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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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That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.
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The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
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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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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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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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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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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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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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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