Mother Julian Of Norwich Quotes

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

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

He wills that we take ourselves with great strength to the faith of holy Church and find there our most precious mother in comfort and true understanding with the whole communion of blessed ones. For a person by himself can frequently be broken, as it seems to himself, but the whole body of holy Church was never broken and never shall be, without end. Therefore it is a sure thing, a good thing, and a gracious thing to will meekly and powerfully to be fastened and joined to our mother, holy Church - that is Christ Jesus.

And when we fall, God quickly lifts us up, leaping out into our lives like a mother playing peek-a-boo with her child, reassuring the baby with her touch. And when we have been strengthened by God’s action in our lives, then we choose with all our consciousness to serve God and be God’s lovers, endlessly. But

JESUS CHRIST, WHO OPPOSES GOOD to evil, is our true Mother. We have our being from him, where the foundation of motherhood begins.

suck of her milk, but our precious Mother Jesus can feed us with himself, and does, most courteously and most tenderly, with the blessed sacrament, which is the precious food of true life; and with all the sweet sacraments he sustains us most mercifully and graciously....

The human mother can suckle the child with her milk. But our beloved Mother Jesus can feed us with himself. This is what he does when he tenderly and graciously offers us the blessed sacrament, which is the precious food of true life. In mercy and grace he sustains us with all the sweet sacraments. This is what he meant when he said that he was the one that holy church preaches and teaches us. In other words, Christ the Mother is entwined with the wholeness of life which includes all the sacraments, all the virtues, all the virtues of the word-made-flesh, all the goodness that holy church ordains for our benefit. The human mother can tenderly lay the child on her breast, but our tender Mother Jesus can lead us directly into his own tender breast through his sweet broken-open side. Here, he reveals a glimpse of the godhead and some of the joys of paradise with the implicit promise of eternal bliss.

As we seek God it is his will that we do three things: first, that by his grace we apply ourselves seriously to the task of seeking him and not in a lethargic way, not weighed down by unnecessary heaviness and useless depression. Second, that to the end of our lives we resolutely wait for him, out of love for him, without grumbling or pulling against him, for this life is so short anyway. Third, that we trust him utterly out of complete faith in him. For he wants us to know that he will appear unexpectedly, bringing perfect happiness to all who love him.

As to the first, I saw and understood that the high might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great love of the Trinity is our Lord;

The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her own blood. Julian sees breast feeding as an image of the Eucharist,

our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly borne and never shall come to birth out of Him.

Thus in our creation, God All Power is our natural Father, and God All Wisdom is our natural Mother,4 with the Love and the Goodness of the Holy Spirit—who is all one God, one Lord.

Thus Jesus Christ, who does good against evil, is our true Mother—we have our being from Him where the basis of motherhood begins,3 with all the sweet protection of love that accompanies it endlessly. As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

If the phrase “reading spiritually” conjures up a yogi with closed eyes chanting on his carpet, then we need to replace that image and any hurdles it causes for readers. Instead, imagine a mother reading aloud to her children in the living room, each child snuggled beside her, as she intones the words with her young ones, pausing intermittently to ask what they are feeling, thinking, and delighting in. Or try to go back in time and picture Julian of Norwich, in her anchoress cell attached to the cathedral, mulling over the visions that God lay before her, realizing in her heart that the meaning of the showings was love, always love, forever love. Maybe you hear monks humming like bees as they read the texts they are copying aloud and ruminating—meditating— on the words before them. Or you might see a pastor walking up and down in his office, wearing thin the beige carpet beneath his feet, asking himself questions and mumbling answers. (p. 111)

This is why we are restless in heart and soul: we seek our rest in things that are so trivial, in which there is no rest, instead of seeking to know God who is all-powerful, totally wise and good. God alone is true rest.

God is very pleased when we continually search for him. We cannot do more than seed, suffer and trust and this itself is the work of the Holy Spirit in the soul.

When judgment is announced and we are all taken up above, we shall clearly see in God, the secret things which are now hidden from us. Then none of us will have the slightest urge to say, 'Lord, if it had been like this, then it would have been fine.' Instead, we shall all say, with one voice; 'We praise you, Lord, because it is like this: all is well. Now we can really see that everything has been done just as you planned it before anything was made.

suddenly aware that Jesus Christ, often depicted in her time as an angry Judge of sinful humanity, is really a loving Saviour. He is “our dear Mother” whose desire is to love us with perfect love, to see us grow up as his children into perfect life.