This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Julian Of NorwichRead
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the profound and incomprehensible nature of God's love for humanity.
Julian of Norwich emphasizes that the love God has for each individual is so deep and precious that it surpasses human understanding. This highlights the divine nature of love, suggesting that it is both a source of comfort and a mystery that transcends our usual perceptions of affection and care.
In practice
A speaker at a religious gathering could use this quote to illustrate God's unconditional love.
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.
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Love is the force that leaves you colorless
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,_x000D_ _x000D_ And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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