Top 100 Julian of Norwich Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

2. “As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.”

— Julian of Norwich

3. “The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.”

— Julian of Norwich

4. “Between God and the soul there is no between.”

— Julian of Norwich

5. “He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.”

— Julian of Norwich

6. “Everything has being through the love of God.”

— Julian of Norwich

7. “Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.”

— Julian of Norwich

8. “My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

10. “Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.”

— Julian of Norwich

11. “Prayer unites the soul to God.”

— Julian of Norwich

12. “Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.”

— Julian of Norwich

13. “Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.”

— Julian of Norwich

14. “Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.”

— Julian of Norwich

15. “For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.”

— Julian of Norwich

16. “God is nearer to us than our own spirit.”

— Julian of Norwich

17. “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”

— Julian of Norwich

18. “Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.”

— Julian of Norwich

19. “For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

20. “That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.”

— Julian of Norwich

21. “All shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

22. “God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”

— Julian of Norwich

23. “Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.”

— Julian of Norwich

24. “Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God’s will.”

— Julian of Norwich

25. “Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

27. “But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

28. “As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.”

— Julian of Norwich

29. “That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.”

— Julian of Norwich

30. “God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

32. “But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?”

— Julian of Norwich

33. “The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Julian of Norwich

34. “The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.”

— Julian of Norwich

35. “Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.”

— Julian of Norwich

36. “Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.”

— Julian of Norwich

37. “For I saw no wrath except on man’s side, and he forgives that in us, for wrath is nothing but a perversity and an opposition to peace and to love.”

— Julian of Norwich

38. “We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

40. “Two duties belong to our souls. One is to reverently marvel. The other is humbly to endure, always taking pleasure in God. He wants us to remember that life is short and it won’t be long until we clearly see, within him, all that we desire.”

— Julian of Norwich

41. “God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.”

— Julian of Norwich

42. “The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.”

— Julian of Norwich

43. “We are made exactly as God wants us to be. We only need to lift our minds above Earth’s empty sorrows so that we can rejoice in the Divine joy.”

— Julian of Norwich

44. “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.”

— Julian of Norwich

45. “God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.”

— Julian of Norwich

46. “For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us.”

— Julian of Norwich

47. “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.”

— Julian of Norwich

48. “In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.”

— Julian of Norwich

49. “Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.”

— Julian of Norwich

50. “Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.”

— Julian of Norwich