Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
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This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of having both expansive prayers and deep trust in the divine will.
Julian of Norwich highlights the necessity of approaching God with both boldness in our requests and unwavering trust. This statement encapsulates the idea that faith involves not only asking for great things in prayer but also believing profoundly in their fulfillment, indicating a relationship with the divine that is both expectant and confident.
Themes
PrayerTrustFaithDivineBoldness
In practice
Example use cases
During a church sermon on faith, this quote can be used to encourage congregation members to pray boldly.
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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.
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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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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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