Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich (1342-1413)

Philosopher and Mystic

• Behold and see! For by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness that I have done all this, by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness I shall make well all that is not well; and thou shalt see it.
  • God in Vision to Julian

• "I am that which is highest, I am that which is lowest, I am that which is ALL."
  • God in Vision to Julian

• If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought.

• God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

• Where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath no place.

• Immediately is the soul made at one with God when it is truly set at peace in itself.

• All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all.

• Sin is no deed

• It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

• It is sooth that sin is cause of all this pain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

• In these words I saw a marvellous high mystery hid in God, which mystery He shall openly make known to us in Heaven: in which knowing we shall verily see the cause why He suffered sin to come. In which sight we shall endlessly joy in our Lord God.

• In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall

• Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians, with charity, it is Christ in him.

• But all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well

  (This was the answer given to her by her dear Lord Jesus when she protested that all could not be well if sinners were eternally punished in the flames of Hell.)

• 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. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God...

  Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (Chapter 5)