Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness. — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
... 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… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“He wills that we take ourselves with great strength to the faith of holy Church and find there our most precious mother in comfort and true understanding with the whole communion of blessed ones. For a person by himself can frequently be broken, as it seems to himself, but the whole body of holy Church was never broken and never… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
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… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share
Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers. — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“...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… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share
