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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHOur 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.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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 willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God’s will.
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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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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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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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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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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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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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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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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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