Julian Of Norwich Quotes

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

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

Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

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

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

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.

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

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.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

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.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

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

Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: 'Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well'.

We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.

Everything has being through the love of God.

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

All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

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

Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.

God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

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

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

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!

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

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

... 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.

Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

Prayer unites the soul to God.