This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Julian Of NorwichRead
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the interconnection of charity, faith, and hope, suggesting that these virtues support and lead each other.
Julian of Norwich highlights the essential role of charity in maintaining faith and hope. She suggests that charity not only sustains believers through difficult times but also ultimately unites them in love, leading to a greater understanding of divine grace. The assertion that all will culminate in charity underlines the belief that acts of love and kindness are the ultimate purpose of human existence.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a charity event to inspire volunteers.
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing, and he wants our souls to be gladly disposed toward him . . . by his grace he lifts up and will draw our outer disposition to our inward, and will make us all at unity with him, and each of us with others in the true, lasting joy which is Jesus.
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.
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The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
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