" But oftentimes when our falling and our wretchedness is shewed us, we are so sore adread, and so greatly ashamed of our self, that sc...

"O ur heavenly Mother, Jesus, may not suffer us that are His children to perish: for He is All-mighty, All-wisdom, and All-love; and so...

" And by the assay of this falling we shall have an high, marvellous knowing of love in God, without end. For strong and marvellous is ...

" For we shall see verily in heaven, without end, that we have grievously sinned in this life, and notwithstanding this, we shall see t...

"And when we fall, hastily He raiseth us by His lovely calling  and gracious touching. And when we be thus strengthened by His sweet wo...

" And in our spiritual forthbringing He useth more tenderness of keeping, without any likeness: by as much as our soul is of more price...

" The Kindly,  loving Mother that witteth (understands) and knoweth the need of her child, she keepeth it full tenderly, as the nature ...

"The Mother may lay the child tenderly to her breast, but our tender Mother, Jesus, He may homely lead us into His blessed breast, by H...

" He would not stint (cease) of working: wherefore then it behoveth (befits) Him to feed us; for the dearworthy love of Motherhood hath...

" He sustaineth  us within Himself in love; and travailed, unto the full time that He would suffer the sharpest throes and the most gri...

" We know that all our mothers' bearing is [bearing of] us to pain and to dying: and what is this but that our Very Mother, Jesus, ...

"O ur high God is sovereign Wisdom of all: in this low place He arrayed and dight (prepared) Him full ready in our poor flesh, Himself ...

"W e were made by the Motherhood of Nature-Love: which kindly-love, it never leaveth us." Julian of Norwich (Ch. 60) God mothered ...

" I understood three manners of beholding of Motherhood in God: the first is grounded in our Nature's  making ; the second is  taki...

" As verily as God is our Father, so verily God is our Mother; and that shewed He in all, and especially in these sweet words where He ...

"W ickedness hath been suffered to rise contrary to the Goodness, and the Goodness of Mercy and Grace contraried against the wickedness...

" For all our life is in  three : in the first we have our Being, in the second we have our Increasing, and in the third we have our Fu...

" For He saith: I love thee and thou lovest me, and our love shall never be disparted in two." Julian of Norwich (Ch. 58) We are i...

" And in the knitting and the oneing He is our Very, True Spouse, and we His loved Wife, His Fair Maiden: with which Wife He is never d...

"In our making, God, Almighty, is our Nature's Father; and God, All-Wisdom, is our Nature's Mother; with the Love and the Goodn...

" For it is His good-pleasure to reign in our Understanding blissfully, and sit in our Soul restfully, and to dwell in our Soul endless...

"O ur Saviour is our Very Mother in whom we be endlessly borne,   and never shall come out of Him." Julian of Norwich (Ch. 57) It ...

 " For the same virtues that we have received of our Substance, given to us in Nature by the Goodness of God,—the same virtues by the w...

" And thus in our Substance we are full, and in our Sense-soul we fail." Julian of Norwich (Ch. 57) Our spirits are always complet...

 " And anent (with regard to) our Substance He made us noble, and so rich that evermore we work His will and His worship....We are that...

"For our soul sitteth in God in very rest, and our soul standeth in God in very strength, and our Soul is kindly rooted in God in endle...

"God is nearer to us than our own Soul." Julian of Norwich (Ch. 56) God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. He knows us bett...

" For our Soul is so deep-grounded in God, and so endlessly treasured, that we may not come to the knowing thereof till we have first k...

 " And all the gifts that God may give to creatures, He hath given to His Son Jesus for us: which gifts He, dwelling in us, hath enclos...

" For God is never out of the soul: in which He dwelleth blissfully without end." Julian of Norwich (Ch. 55) God is always in us. ...

"For I saw full assuredly that our Substance is in God, and also I saw that in our sense-soul  God is."  Julian of Norwich (Ch. 55...

"And notwithstanding all our feeling of woe or weal, God willeth that we should understand and hold  by faith that we are more verily i...

 " And of all things that belong to us [to do], it is most pleasing to our Lord that we enjoy in this joy which is in the blessed Trini...