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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHIt 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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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: ‘Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well’.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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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 goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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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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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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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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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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