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Julian of Norwich was a 14th-century English mystic, writer, and prophet. Her life and works are significant in the fields of Christian mysticism and female religious writing.

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Famous Julian of Norwich Quotes

“The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.”

Made Ends Use Turns Prayer Goodness Elements All Things

Author:Julian of Norwich

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

Life Made Ends All Things Same Love

Book:Revelations of divine love

Source: Revelations of divine love

“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.”

Life Ends Taken Grace Goodness Makers Rooted Dread Brethren

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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

Life Ends Charity Hope And Faith

Book:Revelations of divine love

Source: Revelations of divine love

“Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.”

Knows Life Wells Ends Lord Thee Our Lord

Author:Julian of Norwich

“I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.”

Life Made Ends Done Life Is Saws Our Lives All Things Everlasting Profitable

Author:Julian of Norwich

About the Author

Born: November 8, 1342
Died: 1416
Known for: Author
Quotes: 95

Books & Sources

The Showings of Divine LoveRelated source material

Revelations of divine loveRelated source material

Collected WorksRelated source material

SHOWING OF LOVERelated source material

ShowingsRelated source material

The Collected Works of Julian of NorwichRelated source material

Daily Readings with Julian of NorwichRelated source material

Showings. Translated from the Critical Text with an Introduction by Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. and James Walsh, S.J. Preface by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.Related source material

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