Julian of Norwich Quotes
1340–1410 England
Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416) was an English Christian mystic and theologian. Little is known of her life.
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Because of this great, endless love that God hath to all Mankind, He maketh no disparting in love between the blessed Soul of Christ and the least soul that shall be saved.
Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.
He taught us to do good against ill: here may we see that He is Himself this charity, and doeth to us as He teacheth us to do.
And when I saw all this, it behoved me needs to grant that the mercy of God and the forgiveness is to slacken and waste our wrath.
He willeth that we love Him sweetly and trust in Him meekly and mightily. And this shewed He in these gracious words: I keep thee full surely.
And therefore when the Doom is given and we be all brought up above, then shall we clearly see in God the secret things which be now hid to us.
In all this blessed Shewing our good Lord gave understanding that the Sight should pass: which blessed Shewing the Faith keepeth, with His own good will and His grace.
The mother may suffer the child to fall sometimes, and to be hurt in diverse manners for its own profit, but she may never suffer that any manner of peril come to the child, for love.
But when He of His special grace will shew Himself here, He strengtheneth the creature above its self, and He measureth the Shewing, after His own will, as it is profitable for the time.
Thus Christ is our Way, us surely leading in His laws, and Christ in His body mightily beareth us up into heaven.
Glad and joyous and sweet is the Blissful lovely Cheer of our Lord to our souls.
He in all this working useth the office of a kind nurse that hath nought else to do but to give heed about the salvation of her child.
These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May.
Revelations of Divine Love (1393)
And here was I learned that I should see mine own sin, and not other men's sins but if it may be for comfort and help of mine even-Christians.
I saw that our nature is in God whole: in which He maketh diversities flowing out of Him to work His will: whom Nature keepeth, and Mercy and Grace restoreth and fulfilleth.
This fair lovely word Mother, it is so sweet and so close in Nature of itself that it may not verily be said of none but of Him; and to her that is very Mother of Him and of all.
For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain which is not sin. And to me was shewed no harder hell than sin. For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.
Thus signifieth He where He saith: I am Ground of thy beseeching. And thus in this blessed word, with the Shewing, I saw a full overcoming against all our weakness and all our doubtful dreads.
In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man's doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.
Thus I saw how Christ hath compassion on us for the cause of sin.