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Our Substance is our Father, God Almighty, and our Substance is our Mother, God, All-wisdom; and our Substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God All-goodness.

— Julian of Norwich

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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

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

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Our Soul may never have rest in things that are beneath itself.

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

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