Julian of Norwich - Love Quotes

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

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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