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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.

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 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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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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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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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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All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
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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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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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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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God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
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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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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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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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My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
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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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But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
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