Julian Of Norwich Quotes

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.

— Julian Of Norwich

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

— Julian Of Norwich

We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully ...

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“But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?”

— Julian Of Norwich

“Deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good will ever come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it so that we cannot find peace in the blessed contemplation of God as we should do; and this is why: our reasoning powers are so blind now, so humble and so simple, that we cannot know the high, marvelous wisdom, the might and the goodness of the Holy Trinity. And this is what he means where he says, 'You shall see for yourself that all manner of things shall be well', as if he said, 'Pay attention to this now, faithfully and confidently, and at the end of time you will truly see it in the fullness of joy.”

— Julian Of Norwich

God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.

— Julian Of Norwich

“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort ... our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising ... our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. ... . Just as our contrariness here on earth brings us pain, shame and sorrow, so grace brings us surpassing comfort, glory, and bliss in heaven ... And that shall be a property of blessed love, that we shall know in God, which we might never have known without first experiencing woe.”

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“Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us. And this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made nought [29] as to all things that are made. When it is willingly made nought, for love, to have Him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest.”

— Julian Of Norwich

Lord, let not our souls be busy inns that have no room for thee or thine,
But quiet homes of prayer and praise, where thou mayest find fit company,
Where the needful cares of life are wisely ordered and put away,
And wide, sweet spaces kept for thee; where holy thoughts pass up and down
And fervent longings watch and wait thy coming.

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“Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)”

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“For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.”

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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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“The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.”

— Julian Of Norwich

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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“As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.”

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We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.

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“That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.”

— Julian Of Norwich

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

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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.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“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.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.”

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“If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.”

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Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is created to be God's dwelling place, and the dwelling of our souls is God, who is uncreated. It is a great understanding to see and know inwardly that God, who is our Creator, dwells in our soul, and it is a far greater understanding to see and know inwardly that our soul, which is created, dwells in God in substance, of which substance, though God, we are what we are.

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“For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us. It is when we do see something of him by his grace that we are stirred by that same grace to seek him, and with earnest longing to see still more of his blessedness. So I saw him and sought him; I had him and wanted him. It seems to me that this is and should be an experience common to us all.”

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“It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.”

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Prayer unites the soul to God.

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“God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“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

“Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.”

— Julian Of Norwich

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

— Julian Of Norwich

“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 willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!”

— Julian Of Norwich

“He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.”

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“A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.”

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Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

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“For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“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 is nearer to us than our own spirit”

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“But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.”

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“We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.”

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“The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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“The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.”

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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.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.”

— Julian Of Norwich

“Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.”

— Julian Of Norwich