The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHWherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
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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.
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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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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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Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
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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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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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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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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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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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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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