As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
JULIAN OF NORWICHPray, 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.
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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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We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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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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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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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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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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