I have recently been enjoying reading a book by Julian of Norwich called The Revelation of Divine Love, and I just wanted to share some wonderful and comforting quotes from the book..to see God as perfect Love just makes things so simple and beautiful..since the Beautiful One at the heart of it all is Pure, Strong, Unconditional, Unending Love, then everything will be okay..all IS well and all SHALL BE well! Love has us and won't let us go, Love will make everything alright!
Julian of Norwich quotes
“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
“The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his 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.”
“God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”
“Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.”
“And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.”
“See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do
everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever
shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to the conclusion I
ordained for it before time began, by the same power, wisdom and love
with which I made it. How can anything be amiss?”
“...deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer
such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good will ever
come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it so
that we cannot find peace in the blessed contemplation of God as we
should do; and this is why: our reasoning powers are so blind now, so
humble and so simple, that we cannot know the high, marvelous wisdom,
the might and the goodness of the Holy Trinity. And this is what he
means where he says, 'You shall see for yourself that all manner of
things shall be well', as if he said, 'Pay attention to this now,
faithfully and confidently, and at the end of time you will truly see it
in the fullness of joy.”
“...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.”
“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant,
endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious
rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. …."
from The Revelation of Divine Love