Julian of Norwich
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A 14th-century English mystic and theologian known for her series of spiritual visions, which she later recorded in a groundbreaking work. Her writings emphasize God’s infinite love, compassion, and the eventual reconciliation of all things. Her optimistic theology, centered on divine goodness and hope, has made her an enduring figure in Christian mysticism.
Julian of Norwich
Quotes
A 14th-century English mystic and theologian known for her series of spiritual visions, which she later recorded in a groundbreaking work. Her writings emphasize God’s infinite love, compassion, and the eventual reconciliation of all things. Her optimistic theology, centered on divine goodness and hope, has made her an enduring figure in Christian mysticism.
Between God and the soul there is no between.
It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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.
This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray, we do not full worship to our Lord in our prayer, and also we tarry and pain our self. The cause is, as I believe, that we know not truly that our Lord is Ground on whom our prayer springeth; and also that we know not that it is given us by the grace of His love. For if we knew this, it would make us to trust to have, of our Lord’s gift, all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
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 fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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.
Everything has being through the love of God.
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.
That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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.
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.
Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
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!
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.
