Julian of Norwich quotes - page 11

And if we see soothly that our sin deserveth it, yet His love excuseth us, and of His great courtesy He doeth away all our blame, and beholdeth us with ruth and pity as children innocent and unloathful. (Julian of Norwich)
It is God's will that we have three things in our seeking: - The first is that we seek earnestly and diligently, without sloth, and, as it may be through His grace, without unreasonable heaviness and vain sorrow. View quote
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Two things belong to our soul as duty: the one is that we reverently marvel, the other that we meekly suffer, ever enjoying in God. For He would have us understand that we shall in short time see clearly in Himself all that we desire. View quote
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I IT AM that is highest; I IT AM that is lowest; I IT AM that is ALL. View quote
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For I saw no wrath but on man's part; and that forgiveth He in us. For wrath is not else but a forwardness and a contrariness to peace and love; and either it cometh of failing of might, or of failing of wisdom, or of failing of goodness: which failing is not in God, but is on our part. For we by sin and wretchedness have in us a wretched and continuant contrariness to peace and to love. View quote
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For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love. View quote
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Rightfulness hath two fair properties: it is right and it is full. View quote
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He is here with us, leading us, and shall be till when He hath brought us all to His bliss in heaven. View quote
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In all this blessed Shewing our good Lord gave understanding that the Sight should pass: which blessed Shewing the Faith keepeth, with His own good will and His grace. View quote
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He is our Mother, Brother, and Saviour. View quote
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I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and after, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching? (Julian of Norwich)
What may make us more to enjoy in God than to see in Him that He enjoyeth in the highest of all His works? For I saw in the same Shewing that if the blessed Trinity might have made Man's Soul any better, any fairer, any nobler than it was made, He should not have been full pleased with the making of Man's Soul. View quote
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It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. View quote
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This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Shewings, or Revelations particular. View quote
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Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning. View quote
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The soul that willeth to be in rest when other man's sin cometh to mind, he shall flee it as the pain of hell, seeking unto God for remedy, for help against it. View quote
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The light is Charity, and the measuring of this light is done to us profitably by the wisdom of God. View quote
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And therefore when the Doom is given and we be all brought up above, then shall we clearly see in God the secret things which be now hid to us. View quote
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He hath great ruth, and therefore He will Himself make them more open to us, whereby we may know Him and love Him and cleave to Him. For all that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us. View quote
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Our Good Lord shewed Himself in diverse manners both in heaven and in earth, but I saw Him take no place save in man's soul. View quote
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These two desires aforesaid passed from my mind, but the third dwelled with me continually. (Julian of Norwich)
Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret things He willeth we should know hid until the time that He will clearly shew them to us. View quote
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In God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved. View quote
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Then I understood thus: that if a man or woman were under the broad water, if he might have sight of God so as God is with a man continually, he should be safe in body and soul, and take no harm: and overpassing, he should have more solace and comfort than all this world can tell. View quote
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For I saw full surely that where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken and wrath hath no place. For I saw no manner of wrath in God, neither for short time nor for long; - for in sooth, as to my sight, if God might be wroth for an instant, we should never have life nor place nor being. View quote
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