Julian of Norwich Quotes

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It behoved 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
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

Julian of Norwich
He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

Julian of Norwich
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Julian of Norwich
The Holy Ghost moveth ne'er a thing against charity, for if He did, He would be contrary to His own self for He is all charity.

Julian of Norwich
Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

Julian of Norwich
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.

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If there be anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe from falling, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown me. But this was shown: that whether in falling or in rising we are always kept in the same precious love.

Julian of Norwich
As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother.

Julian of Norwich
He showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed to me, and it was as round as a ball.

Julian of Norwich
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."

Julian of Norwich
If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

Julian of Norwich
Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.

Julian of Norwich
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

Julian of Norwich
The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

Julian of Norwich
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

Julian of Norwich
I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

Julian of Norwich
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.

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

Julian of Norwich
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.

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We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Julian of Norwich
A cheerful giver does not count the cost of what he gives. His heart is set on pleasing and cheering him to whom the gift is given.

Julian of Norwich