Julian of Norwich Quotes

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Christ Compassion Earth Giving God Goodness Grace

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.

Julian of Norwich

Spiritual, Grace, Able

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Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.

Julian of Norwich

Prayer, Believe, Sick

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

Julian of Norwich

Faith, Purification, Quartets

Revelations of Divine Love ch. 27 (ca. 1380)

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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.

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Jesus, Overcoming, Uncomfortable

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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.

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Teacher, Teaching, Joy

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Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.

Julian of Norwich

Heart

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Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

Julian of Norwich

Running, Sweet, Spring

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

Julian of Norwich

Life, May, Grounded

Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com

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

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Mother, Father, Our Father

Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.194, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Julian of Norwich

God, Christian, Religious

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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.

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Fall, Needs, Weak

Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.201, Penguin UK

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The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

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Inspirational, Positive, Joy

Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.78, Lulu.com

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Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is created to be God’s dwelling place, and the dwelling of our souls is God, who is uncreated. It is a great understanding to see and know inwardly that God, who is our Creator, dwells in our soul, and it is a far greater understanding to see and know inwardly that our soul, which is created, dwells in God in substance, of which substance, though God, we are what we are.

Julian of Norwich

Dwelling Place, Understanding, Soul

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Between God and the soul there is no between.

Julian of Norwich

Soul

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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.

Julian of Norwich

Prayer, Grace, Soul

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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.

Julian of Norwich

Hope, Overcoming, Said

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

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Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.

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Life, Lord, Ends

"Revelations of Divine Love". Book by Julian of Norwich (The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86), circa 1393.

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

Julian of Norwich

Heart, Sight, Soul

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

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Compassion, Giving, Cheerful

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

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Life

Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Julian of Norwich

Grace, Saws, Common

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

Julian of Norwich

Prayer, Giving, Grace

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See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?

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And Love, Made, Conclusion

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God is nearer to us than our own spirit

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Peaceful, Spirit

Julian of Norwich (2010). “The Collected Works of Julian of Norwich”, p.139, Lulu.com

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Born: November 8, 1342
Died: 1416
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