As 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 NORWICHUntil I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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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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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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If 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.
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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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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.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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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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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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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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Cheerful 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.
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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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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.
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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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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 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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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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