The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
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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 failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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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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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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All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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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.
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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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