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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHFor our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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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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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
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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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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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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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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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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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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