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 NORWICHThe love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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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.
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God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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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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The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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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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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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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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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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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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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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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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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.
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Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God’s will.
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Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: ‘Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well’.
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Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
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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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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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