The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHCheerful 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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In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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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.
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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 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 life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
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Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
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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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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.
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God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
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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 failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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