Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
JULIAN OF NORWICHGod is nearer to us than our own spirit.
More Julian of Norwich Quotes
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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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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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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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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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Between God and the soul there is no between.
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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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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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Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
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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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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