Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Julian of Norwich - Page 2

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

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.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.

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

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

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

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.

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!

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.

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.

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

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.

... 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.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

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

I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.

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

Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.

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

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.

Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing, and he wants our souls to be gladly disposed toward him . . . by his grace he lifts up and will draw our outer disposition to our inward, and will make us all at unity with him, and each of us with others in the true, lasting joy which is Jesus.

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

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.

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

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.