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Julian of Norwich on Mother's Day

1340–1410 England

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All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Shewings, or Revelations particular.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

For love suffereth never to be without pity.

Ever the more clearly that the soul seeth this Blissful Cheer by grace of loving, the more it longeth to see it in fulness.

And the cause why we are travailed with them is for lack in knowing of Love.

He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.

Mercy is a sweet gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity: for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

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.

For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love.

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 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 ...

It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julian of Norwich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.