Julian of Norwich Quotes

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  • But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

    Jesus   Vision   Sin  
  • 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.

    Life   Compassion   Self  
    Julian of Norwich (2012). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.162, Courier Corporation
  • In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

    God   Fall   Sight  
    Julian (of Norwich) (1966). “Revelations of divine love”, Penguin Books
  • Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

  • 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 (2007). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.141, Cosimo, Inc.
  • For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them. It is only with the help of his grace that we are able to persevere in spiritual contemplation with endless wonder at his high, surpassing, immeasurable love which our Lord in his goodness has for us.

    Spiritual   Grace   Able  
  • As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

    Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.194, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.

    Life   Lord   Ends  
    "Revelations of Divine Love". Book by Julian of Norwich (The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86), circa 1393.
  • All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.151, Simon and Schuster
  • See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?

  • 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.

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

    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
  • We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.

    Julian of Norwich (2014). “Collected Works”, p.185, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

    Julian of Norwich (2012). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.69, Courier Corporation
  • Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.

    Life  
    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Mother   Jesus   Pain  
    Julian of Norwich (1985). “Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich”, Templegate Pub
  • 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 (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

    Fall   Sight   Looks  
  • 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.

    Life   Sight   Mercy  
    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Teacher   Teaching   Joy  
  • Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

    Life   May   Grounded  
    Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com
  • The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

    Life   Love Life   Mercy  
    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
  • ... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.

    Prayer   Real   Ignorance  
  • 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.

  • God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
  • The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

    Prayer   Purpose   Fruit  
  • Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

    Two   Delight   Wonderful  
  • All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

    Revelations of Divine Love ch. 27 (ca. 1380)
  • God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

    God   Hate   Soul  
    Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
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