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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPrayer unites the soul to God.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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Everything has being through the love of God.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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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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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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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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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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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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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 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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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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