He [Jesus] did not say, ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,’ but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome.
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 fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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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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Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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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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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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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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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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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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