Julian of Norwich Quotes on God

Quotes

• “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

  Revelations of Divine Love, Chapter 27

• “Love was His meaning.”

  Revelations of Divine Love, Chapter 86

• “He said not, 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted'; but He said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'”

  Revelations of Divine Love, Chapter 68

• Attributed to Julian of Norwich:

  “The greatest honour we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of His love.”

• Attributed to Julian of Norwich:

  “He did not say: 'You shall not be tempest-tossed, you shall not be over-strained, you shall not be disquieted'; but He said: 'You shall not be overcome.'”

• “This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ , our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Shewings, or Revelations particular. Of the which the First is of His precious crowning with thorns; and therewith was comprehended and specified the Trinity, with the Incarnation, and unity betwixt God and man's soul ; with many fair shewings of endless wisdom and teachings of love: in which all the Shewings that follow be grounded and oned.”

  First lines

• “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.”

  Wikiquote

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

  Wikiquote

• “Our Lord is the Ground of our Prayer. Herein were seen two properties: the one is rightful prayer, the other is steadfast trust; which He willeth should both be alike large; and thus our prayer pleaseth Him and He of His Goodness fulfilleth it.”

  Wikiquote

• “We shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in Heaven.”

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• “These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May. Which creature afore desired three gifts of God. The First was mind of His Passion; the Second was bodily sickness in youth, at thirty years of age; the Third was to have of God's gift three wounds.”

  Wikiquote

• “For the Third, by the grace of God and teaching of Holy Church I conceived a mighty desire to receive three wounds in my life: that is to say, the wound of very contrition, the wound of kind compassion, and the wound of steadfast longing toward God. And all this last petition I asked without any condition. These two desires aforesaid passed from my mind, but the third dwelled with me continually.”

  Wikiquote

• “We may never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul.”

  Chapter 56 | Variant: We can never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul.

• “The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.”

  Chapter 22

• “Here understand I in truth that all manner of things are made ready for us by the great goodness of God, so far forth that what time we be ourselves in peace and charity, we be verily saved.”

  Chapter 40

• “Because of this great, endless love that God hath to all Mankind, He maketh no disparting in love between the blessed Soul of Christ and the least soul that shall be saved.”

  Chapter 54

• “I saw full surely that all the works that God hath done, or ever shall, were fully known to Him and aforeseen from without beginning. And for Love He made Mankind, and for the same Love would be Man.”

  Chapter 57

• “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.”

  Chapter 72

• “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.”

  Chapter 11

• “The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.”

  Chapter 14

• “God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.”

  Chapter 40

• “Beseeching is a true, gracious, lasting will of the soul, oned and fastened into the will of our Lord by the sweet inward work of the Holy Ghost.”

  Chapter 41

• “Thus Christ is our Way, us surely leading in His laws, and Christ in His body mightily beareth us up into heaven.”

  Chapter 55

• “Our high God is sovereign Wisdom of all: in this low place He arrayed and dight Him full ready in our poor flesh, Himself to do the service and the office of Motherhood in all things.”

  Chapter 60

• “God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.”

  Chapter 8

• “This hath ever been a comfort to me, that I chose Jesus to my Heaven, by His grace, in all this time of Passion and sorrow; and that hath been a learning to me that I should evermore do so: choose only Jesus to my Heaven in weal and woe.”

  Chapter 19

• “The cause why He suffereth is for He will of His goodness make us the higher with Him in His bliss; and for this little pain that we suffer here, we shall have an high endless knowing in God which we could never have without that.”

  Chapter 21

• “To this our Lord answered in this manner: A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.”

  Chapter 28

• “It is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be.”

  Chapter 33

• “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.”

  Chapter 36

• “Immediately is the soul made at one with God when it is truly set at peace in itself.”

  Chapter 49