God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPeace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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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.
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He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!
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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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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 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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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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Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
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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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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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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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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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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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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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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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