Julian of Norwich

"The love of God transcends all understanding."

"All shall be made well through the love of Christ."

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

"God is nearer to us than our own soul."

"We are not fully ourselves till we have surrendered ourselves to Him."

"The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of His love."

"Prayer unites the soul to God."

"Love was His meaning."

"I understood that we must earnestly desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ."

"God wants to be known, and it pleases Him that we trust and delight in Him."

"In our making, God is our Father; in our re-making, God is our Mother."

"The entire life of mankind may be said to be nothing but a kind of death."

"Sin has no substance; it is only pain."

"God showed me that sin is no shame but honor to man."

"I saw that God was in all things."

"He did not say 'Thou shalt not be troubled,' but 'Thou shalt not be overcome.'"

"The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything."

"We are so vile and wretched, yet we know that mercy exists."

"God showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, in the palm of my hand."

"To God, all time is eternally present."

"Our courteous Lord does not want His servants to despair."

"The soul is so precious in the sight of God that His entire self was pleased to die for it."

"We are all bound together in love."

"I am the ground of thy beseeching."

"Patience is a noble virtue, with power over pain."

"God loves the soul so tenderly that He suffers nothing to separate it from Himself."

"To the soul that regardeth itself as naught for the love of God, all is well."

"Christ is our clothing, wrapping us in His love."

"Peace and love are always in us, dwelling in our higher part."

"Our good Lord showed me that it is full great pleasure to Him that a simple soul should come to Him."