Julian of Norwich on love
Julian of Norwich75 quotes“For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.”
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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich 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.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich 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.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich 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.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich 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.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich 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 NorwichJulian of Norwich 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.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich 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 NorwichJulian of Norwich Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich
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