Lo, How I Love Thee! Quotes

“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.”
― Brendan Pelphrey, Lo, How I Love Thee! : Divine Love in Julian of Norwich

“we have the image of God in our creation, we grow into the likeness of God in Christ. Julian’s vision is therefore of human growth in love—divine Love—as we are transformed by the Love of God.”
― Brendan Pelphrey, Lo, How I Love Thee! : Divine Love in Julian of Norwich

“In particular, Julian may be seen as a contemplative theologian whose work, which is Biblical and comprehensive, draws together the important strands of Christian spirituality as it is found in both the western Catholic mystics and in Eastern Orthodoxy.”
― Brendan Pelphrey, Lo, How I Love Thee! : Divine Love in Julian of Norwich

“visions, sudden insights that seemed to be supplied supernaturally, audible “teachings,” spiritual reflections (she speaks of her “ghostly understanding”), logical deductions that she made at the time, insights she arrived at only gradually, and even supernatural smells and other bodily experiences. She also tells us that she continued to receive briefer supernatural “touchings” and insights for many years afterwards, although these are not described by her in any detail.”
― Brendan Pelphrey, Lo, How I Love Thee! : Divine Love in Julian of Norwich

“Julian’s theology has no boundaries. In Tibet I referred to her in a conversation with a Buddhist doctor from Germany, who previously thought of the Christian God only in terms of divine wrath and judgement.”
― Brendan Pelphrey, Lo, How I Love Thee! : Divine Love in Julian of Norwich

“In the meantime, my own understanding of Julian has grown and changed as I became a priest of the Orthodox Church. Through this experience my original impression, that Julian reproduces insights of the great theologians of the Eastern Church, has been continually deepened and confirmed. (In this study I have used the word, “Church,” to denote Julian’s own Roman Catholic tradition, as she would have done; and not in the Orthodox sense, which is limited to Orthodoxy.)”
― Brendan Pelphrey, Lo, How I Love Thee! : Divine Love in Julian of Norwich