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 NORWICHPrayer 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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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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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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The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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 fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
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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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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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