Quotes from Julian of Norwich

Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.

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.

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

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.

The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

Prayer unites the soul to God.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

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

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

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.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

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.

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

Everything has being through the love of God.

Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

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

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

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.

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

It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

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

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

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