Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love (1395)

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

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

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

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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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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.

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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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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."

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

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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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