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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
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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
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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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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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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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He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
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It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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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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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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.
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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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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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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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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.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
November 8, 1342
Died:
1416
(aged 73)
Bio:
Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress and an important Christian mystic and theologian. Her Revelations of Divine Love, written around 1395, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman.
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Revelations of Divine Love (1395)
All will be well
The Showings of Julian of Norwich
Enfolded in love
The Wisdom of Julian of Norwich
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