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Quotes from Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

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)

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)

All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.

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)

I to them that were about me: It is to-day Doomsday with me. And this I said for that I thought to have died.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

It is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God in us, Whom we see not.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

These two desires aforesaid passed from my mind, but the third dwelled with me continually.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

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)

When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

Lord, Thou knowest what I would, — if it be Thy will that I have it — and if it be not Thy will, good Lord, be not displeased: for I will nought but as Thou wilt.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

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)

These two desires of the Passion and the sickness I desired with a condition, saying thus: Lord, Thou knowest what I would, — if it be Thy will that I have it — and if it be not Thy will, good Lord, be not displeased: for I will nought but as Thou wilt.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

Our Lord God, Allmighty Wisdom, All-Love, right as verily as He hath made everything that is, all-so verily He doeth and worketh all-thing that is done.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

I saw no difference between God and our Substance: but as it were all God; and yet mine understanding took that our Substance is in God: that is to say, that God is God, and our Substance is a creature in God.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

Behold and see! For by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness that I have done all this, by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness I shall make well all that is not well; and thou shalt see it.

Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

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