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In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

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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Sight
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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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But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
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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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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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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 [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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Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
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Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: 'Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well'.
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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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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.
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Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
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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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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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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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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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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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