Quotes about Grace
For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.
— Julian of Norwich
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
— Julian of Norwich
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
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
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
Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)
— Julian of Norwich
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
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
everything that is good is God; whatever goodness we experience in this life is truly a taste of God, for it is God.
— Julian of Norwich
the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
— Julian of Norwich
Never does love's compassionate eye turn from us.
— Julian of Norwich
But in God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved.
— Julian of Norwich