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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
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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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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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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!
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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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