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’.
JULIAN OF NORWICHLord 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’.
JULIAN OF NORWICHOur life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIt 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.
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!
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer unites the soul to God.
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHAs 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHMy, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
JULIAN OF NORWICHFor we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
JULIAN OF NORWICHGod loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICHCheerful 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBut for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
JULIAN OF NORWICHTruth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIn God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThat 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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHWe are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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