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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.

Julian of Norwich

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Julian of Norwich
Age: 73 †
Born: 1342
Born: November 8
Died: 1416
Died: January 1
Theologian
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Juliana of Norwich
St. Julian of Norwich
St. Juliana of Norwich
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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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.
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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.
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He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
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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.
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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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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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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.
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God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
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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.
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Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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