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 NORWICHPrayer 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.
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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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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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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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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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Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
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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’.
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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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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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