Prayer unites the soul to God.
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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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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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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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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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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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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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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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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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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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves 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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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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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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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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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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