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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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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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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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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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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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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
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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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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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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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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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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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Everything has being through the love of God.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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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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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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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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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.
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