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If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians, with charity, it is Christ in him.
God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all.
As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother.
Revelations of Divine Love (1393)
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 Fulfilling: the first is Nature, the second is Mercy, and the third is Grace.
I felt in me five manner of workings, which be these: Enjoying, mourning, desire, dread, and sure hope.
These two desires aforesaid passed from my mind, but the third dwelled with me continually.
Revelations of Divine Love (1393)
By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing toward God we are made worthy.
For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love.
Thus I understood that all His blessed children which be come out of Him by Nature shall be brought again into Him by Grace.
The soul that willeth to be in rest when other man's sin cometh to mind, he shall flee it as the pain of hell, seeking unto God for remedy, for help against it.
The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.
Revelations of Divine Love (1393)
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.
Prayer uniteth the soul to God.
These are two workings that may be seen in this Vision: the one is seeking, the other is beholding.
This book is begun by God's gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my sight.
Our Lord Jesus sheweth in love His blissful heart even cloven in two, rejoicing.
Revelations of Divine Love (1393)
But the clarity and the clearness of Truth and Wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for Love, in which God ...
I saw that two contrary things should never be together in one place. The most contrary that are, is the highest bliss and the deepest pain.