Julian of Norwich Quotes

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Sin is behovely, but all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Behovely = expedient, necessary

Julian of Norwich
Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.

Julian of Norwich
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 is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

Julian of Norwich
But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.

Julian of Norwich
A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.

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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.

Julian of Norwich
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.

Julian of Norwich
When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

Julian of Norwich
God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

Julian of Norwich
The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

Julian of Norwich
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

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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.

Julian of Norwich
The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Julian of Norwich
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!

Julian of Norwich
It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

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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.

Julian of Norwich
That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.

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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.

Julian of Norwich
It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.

Julian of Norwich
For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.

Julian of Norwich
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us. It is when we do see something of him by his grace that we are stirred by that same grace to seek him, and with earnest longing to see still more of his blessedness. So I saw him and sought him; I had him and wanted him. It seems to me that this is and should be an experience common to us all.

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It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

Julian of Norwich
Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

Julian of Norwich
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

Julian of Norwich
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing, and he wants our souls to be gladly disposed toward him... by his grace he lifts up and will draw our outer disposition to our inward, and will make us all at unity with him, and each of us with others in the true, lasting joy which is Jesus.

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Wouldest thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was his meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? for Love…Thus was I learned that Love is our Lord's meaning.

Julian of Norwich