Julian of Norwich Quotes

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

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

All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

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

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

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

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

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.

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

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing 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.

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.

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

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

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

Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: 'Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well'.

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.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

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.

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!

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?

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.

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.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

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

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.

Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.

... 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.

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