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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

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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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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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The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
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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.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
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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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When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
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In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in 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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For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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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.
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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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