Top 100 Julian of Norwich Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

53. “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.”

— Julian of Norwich

54. “Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.”

— Julian of Norwich

55. “God is everything that is good, she writes. All life’s pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God’s hands touching us.”

— Julian of Norwich

56. “Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?”

— Julian of Norwich

57. “For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

59. “Any time we look at our Maker with love, our importance in our own eyes diminishes, and we are filled with awe and humility and love for others.”

— Julian of Norwich

60. “The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.”

— Julian of Norwich

61. “God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.”

— Julian of Norwich

62. “As long as we are in this life, whenever we foolishly turn our attention to those we deem not to be on a spiritual path, our Lord God tenderly touches us and blessedly calls to us, speaking to our souls: Let me be the only object of your attention, my beloved child. Focus on me alone, for I am enough for you. Rejoice in your savior and your salvation.”

— Julian of Norwich

63. “Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.”

— Julian of Norwich

64. “Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.”

— Julian of Norwich

65. “AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

66. “Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.”

— Julian of Norwich

67. “Set all your trust in God and fear not the language of the world; for the more despite, shame, and reproof that ye have in the world, the more is your merit in the sight of God. Patience is necessary unto you, for in that shall ye keep your soul.”

— Julian of Norwich

68. “Whether the soul is in a state of seeking or finding, the way we honor God most is through unconditional surrender.”

— Julian of Norwich

69. “It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.”

— Julian of Norwich

70. “He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

74. “For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

76. “He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!”

— Julian of Norwich

77. “A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.”

— Julian of Norwich

78. “Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.”

— Julian of Norwich

79. “And when we fall, God quickly lifts us up, leaping out into our lives like a mother playing peek-a-boo with her child, reassuring the baby with her touch. And when we have been strengthened by God’s action in our lives, then we choose with all our consciousness to serve God and be God’s lovers, endlessly. But.”

— Julian of Norwich

80. “Some of us believe that God is almighty, and can do everything; and that he is all wise, and may do everything; but that he is all love, and will do everything – there we draw back.”

— Julian of Norwich

81. “For the Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need. It quickeneth our soul and bringeth it on life, and maketh it for to waxen in grace and virtue. It is nearest in nature; and readiest in grace: for it is the same grace that the soul seeketh, and ever shall seek till we know verily that He hath us all in Himself enclosed.”

— Julian of Norwich

82. “It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done – the highest – so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.”

— Julian of Norwich

83. “It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul... God is nearer to us than our soul, for He is the ground in which it stands... so if we want to know our own soul, and enjoy its fellowship, it is necessary to seek it in our Lord God.”

— Julian of Norwich

84. “For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.”

— Julian of Norwich

85. “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.”

— Julian of Norwich

86. “For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, nor shall know it till it is done;.”

— Julian of Norwich

87. “The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.”

— Julian of Norwich

88. “And at the moment that our soul is breathed into our body, when we are created as sensory beings, mercy and grace at once begin to work, taking care of us and protecting us with pity and love; and during this process the Holy Spirit forms in our faith the hope that we shall rise up above again to our substance, into the virtue of Christ, increased and accomplished through the Holy Spirit.”

— Julian of Norwich

89. “Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.”

— Julian of Norwich

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

— Julian of Norwich

91. “Therefore this is His thirst and love-longing, to have us altogether whole in Him, to His bliss, – as.”

— Julian of Norwich

92. “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.”

— Julian of Norwich

93. “God’s goodness transcends all thought, all comprehension.”

— Julian of Norwich

94. “For He that made man for the sake of love, would by the same love restore man to bliss, even greater than before.”

— Julian of Norwich

95. “Never does love’s compassionate eye turn from us.”

— Julian of Norwich

96. “But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.”

— Julian of Norwich

97. “Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.”

— Julian of Norwich

98. “We will not take possession of our birthright of never-ending joy until we find ourselves fully gratified with God and all his actions and judgments, loving and nonviolent toward ourselves and toward all our fellow seekers, and able to love everything God loves. And when we do achieve this state of surrender and love, it is the goodness of God that awakens it in us.”

— Julian of Norwich

99. “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.”

— Julian of Norwich

100. “God and the devil be evermore contrarious, and they shall never dwell together in one place; and the devil hath no power in a man’s soul.”

— Julian of Norwich