Julian of Norwich Quotes - Page 4

It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.

God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.

Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

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.

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.

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.

He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.

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.

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

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

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

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

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

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