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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.

Julian of Norwich

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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Enjoyment Goodness Prayer Thinking Yourself
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
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God Gratitude Joy
In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Fall God Ourselves
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Fall Love Ourselves Weakness
The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Goodness Low Need Object Ourselves Prayer Reach
Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Happiness Myself Reality Unity
That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Break God Love Ourselves Sin
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Ground Life Live Love Ourselves
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Art Enough God Myself Respect
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Earth Heaven Love Pain Suffering
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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God Goodness Live Myself Woman
Between God and the soul there is no between.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Soul Spiritual
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Joy Reward Soul Teaching Work
All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Belief Hope Kind Positive
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.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Myself Necessary Sin Vision
Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

God Goodness Ourselves Sin Work

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