Prayer is a right…
Prayer is a right understanding of that fullness of joy which is to come, with true longing and trust.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Delight in God…
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Prayer is a
The love God has for us
The love that God most high has for our soul is so great that it surpasses understanding. No created being can comprehend how much, how sweetly, and how tenderly our maker loves us.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
God loved us…
And so I saw full surely that before ever God made us, he loved us. And this love was never quenched nor ever shall be. And in this love he is done all his works, and in this love he made all things profitable to us, and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning, but the love in which he made us was in him from without beginning.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
The working of mercy…
For, in truth, we shall see in Heaven for all eternity that though we have sinned grievously in this life, we were never hurt in God’s love, nor were we ever of less value in God’s sight. This falling is a test by which we shall have a high and marvelous knowing of love in God forever. That love [of God] is hard and marvelous that cannot and will not be broken for our trespasses. In love mercy allows us to fail somewhat, and in failing we fall, and in falling we die. Our failing is full of fear; our falling is marked by sin; our dying is sorrowful. Yet in all this the sweet eye of pity never departs from us and the working of mercy never ceases.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1432-1420)
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