Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.
JULIAN OF NORWICHOur Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
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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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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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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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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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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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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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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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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
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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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