Quotes about Spirituality
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
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
— Julian of Norwich
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
— Julian of Norwich
God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.
— Julian of Norwich
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
the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
— Julian of Norwich
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
Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
— Julian of Norwich
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
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
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
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? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made.
— Julian of Norwich