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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHThe Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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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 love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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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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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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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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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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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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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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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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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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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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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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