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.
JULIAN OF NORWICHBecause of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
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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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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.
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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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Prayer unites the soul to God.
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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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All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
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God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
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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 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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The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
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