Julian of Norwich Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

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

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

God is nearer to us than our own spirit

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

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

Everything has being through the love of God.

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'.

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

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

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.

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

And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.

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

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

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.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

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

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.

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

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.