Selected Julian of Norwich Quotations
• All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Julian of Norwich on Prayer
• 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.
• Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Julian of Norwich on God and Jesus
• Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
• Between God and the soul there is no between.
• The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
• In this blissful Shewing of our Lord I have understanding of two contrary things: the one is the most wisdom that any creature may do in this life, the other is the most folly. The most wisdom is for a creature to do after the will and counsel of his highest sovereign Friend. This blessed Friend is Jesus....
Julian of Norwich on Adversity
• If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
• 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 on Human Life and Human Nature
• For if we never fell, we should not know how feeble and how wretched we are of our self, and also we should not fully know that marvellous love of our Maker.
• The passing life of the senses doesn't lead to knowledge of what our Self is. When we clearly see what our Self is, then we shall truly know our Lord God in great joy.
• In every soul to be saved is a godly will that has never consented to sin, in the past or in the future. Just as there is an animal will in our lower nature that oes not will what is good, so there is a godly will in our higher part, which by its basic goodness never wills what is evil, but only what is good.
• The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
Julian Norwich on God's Mercy
• Mercy is a sweet gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity: for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good.
• For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2009. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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