Julian of Norwich Quotes (1342-1416)

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Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416) was an English Christian mystic and theologian. Little is known of her life. Even her name is uncertain, the name "Julian" probably originated from the Church of St. Julian, Norwich, where she was an anchoress.

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“Sin is no deed.”
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“All this was to make us glad and merry in love.”
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“Prayer uniteth the soul to God.”
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“Sin is behovable — ; but all shall be well”
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“Thus I saw how Christ hath compassion on us for the cause of sin.”
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“Thus by this gracious knowing we may see our sin profitably without despair.”
“Glad and joyous and sweet is the Blissful lovely Cheer of our Lord to our souls.”
“All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all.”
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“God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.”
“This book is begun by God's gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my sight.”
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“The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“These are two workings that may be seen in this Vision: the one is seeking, the other is beholding.”
“Immediately is the soul made at one with God when it is truly set at peace in itself.”
“The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.”
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“Thus I saw and understood that our faith is our light in our night: which light is God, our endless Day.”
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“God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.”
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“God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.”
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“We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.”
“Thus Christ is our Way, us surely leading in His laws, and Christ in His body mightily beareth us up into heaven.”
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“He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.”
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“After this I saw God in a Point, that is to say, in mine understanding, — by which sight I saw that He is in all things.”
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“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.”
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“He in all this working useth the office of a kind nurse that hath nought else to do but to give heed about the salvation of her child.”
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“Upon our Substance and our Sense-part, both together may rightly be called our Soul: and that is because of the oneing that they have in God.”
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“Now behoveth me to tell in what manner I saw sin deadly in the creatures which shall not die for sin, but live in the joy of God without end.”
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Julian of Norwich on Religious views on love 15 quotes

“Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.”
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Julian of Norwich on Love 15 quotes

“Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.”
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Julian of Norwich on God 8 quotes

“All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.”
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Julian of Norwich on Mercy 8 quotes

“We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.”
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Julian of Norwich on Understanding 7 quotes

“It is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God in us, Whom we see not.”
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Julian of Norwich on Doom 6 quotes

“I to them that were about me: It is to-day Doomsday with me. And this I said for that I thought to have died.”
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Julian of Norwich on Revelation 4 quotes

“We are all one in God’s seeing.”
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Julian of Norwich on Kenosis 3 quotes

“We are all one in God’s seeing.”
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Julian of Norwich on Goddess 3 quotes

“Our Substance is our Father, God Almighty, and our Substance is our Mother, God, All-wisdom; and our Substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God All-goodness.”
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Julian of Norwich on Peace 2 quotes

“All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.”
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Julian of Norwich on Faith 2 quotes

“Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.”
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Julian of Norwich on Meaning 2 quotes

“I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.”
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Julian of Norwich on Mothers 3 quotes

“Our Substance is our Father, God Almighty, and our Substance is our Mother, God, All-wisdom; and our Substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God All-goodness.”
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Source on Julian of Norwich 15 quotes

“Our Lord God, Allmighty Wisdom, All-Love, right as verily as He hath made everything that is, all-so verily He doeth and worketh all-thing that is done.”
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Sydney Carter on Julian of Norwich

“Loud are the bells of Norwich and the people come and go. Here by the tower of Julian, I tell them what I know.”
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About Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416) was an English Christian mystic and theologian. Little is known of her life. Even her name is uncertain, the name "Julian" probably originated from the Church of St. Julian, Norwich, where she was an anchoress.