Julian of Norwich

"I understood spiritually that the soul must needs know His joy and His delight."

"God rejoices that He is our Father, and we are His children."

"By the sweet grace of the Holy Ghost we are made kin to all the blessed."

"The greatest assurance is that God loved us before He made us."

"Pain passeth and will not stay; but bliss shall endure without end."

"God showed me the spiritual thirst of Christ in His longing for mankind."

"The soul that knoweth itself to be nothing findeth all things good in God."

"We are upheld by the power and the wisdom and the goodness of God."

"Our life is grounded in love, and we cannot truly live without it."

"God's love is so great that nothing can hinder it."

"I saw truly that God was all that was good, and that all goodness flowed from Him alone."

"The gift of grace can never be lost, for God keeps it safe within us."

"All our life is in three things: Love, Meekness, and Patience."

"God showed me that every soul that shall be saved is His elect."

"To behold God in all things brings the soul to perfect peace."

"The soul is so united to God that when true peace is in the soul, it is in God."

"I understood that the most noble prayer is thanksgiving."

"God wishes that we would take His works as an article of faith."

"We are in His sight as safe and sound as we shall be eternally."

"The compassion of God toward mankind is beyond all measure and understanding."

"God allows suffering so that we might learn compassion."

"Every soul is precious and every soul shall be saved that truly seeketh after God."

"The mother's love is the very nature of God, eternally given and eternally renewed."

"In the sight of God, all souls are equal in dignity and worth."

"Our trust in God should be as natural as a child's trust in its mother."

"Sin is the greatest sorrow, but God's mercy is the greatest joy."

"God showed me that He never had beginning, nor ever shall have ending."

"To unite oneself to God is to find one's truest self."

"The grace of God worketh continually in our soul until the end."

"In knowing God, we know the source of all that is good and true."