Julian of Norwich Quotes

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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

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Faith, Purification, Quartets

Revelations of Divine Love ch. 27 (ca. 1380)

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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.

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Spiritual, Grace, Able

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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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Jesus, Overcoming, Uncomfortable

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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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Prayer, Believe, Sick

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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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Teacher, Teaching, Joy

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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.

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Heart

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Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

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Running, Sweet, Spring

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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

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Life, May, Grounded

Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com

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As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

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Mother, Father, Our Father

Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.194, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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Fall, Needs, Weak

Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.201, Penguin UK

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The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

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God, Christian, Religious

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Between God and the soul there is no between.

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Soul

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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

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Inspirational, Positive, Joy

Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.78, Lulu.com

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Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is created to be God’s dwelling place, and the dwelling of our souls is God, who is uncreated. It is a great understanding to see and know inwardly that God, who is our Creator, dwells in our soul, and it is a far greater understanding to see and know inwardly that our soul, which is created, dwells in God in substance, of which substance, though God, we are what we are.

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Dwelling Place, Understanding, Soul

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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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Prayer, Grace, Soul

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He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

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Hope, Overcoming, Said

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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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Jesus, Vision, Sin

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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

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Heart, Sight, Soul

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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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Two, Delight, Wonderful

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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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Wrath, Grace, Soul

Julian of Norwich (2007). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

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Prayer unites the soul to God.

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Prayer, Soul

Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.155, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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Positive, Cheer, Heart

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Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.

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Life, Lord, Ends

"Revelations of Divine Love". Book by Julian of Norwich (The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86), circa 1393.

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As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

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Mother, Jesus, Pain

Julian of Norwich (1985). “Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich”, Templegate Pub

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Died: 1416
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