40-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich Quotes

“I understand three ways of contemplating motherhood in God. The first is the foundation of our nature’s creation; the second is his taking of our nature, where the motherhood of grace begins; the third is the motherhood at work.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Pray for those who help people give voice to their authentic questions before God: teachers, therapists, clergypersons, spiritual directors, friends of the heart.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“we shall all be endlessly hidden in God, truly seeing and wholly feeling, and hearing him spiritually and delectably smelling him and sweetly tasting him. And there we shall see God face to face, familiarly and wholly.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“my understanding was lifted up into heaven; and then there came truly to my mind David, Peter and Paul, Thomas of India, and Mary Magdalen, how they are known, with their sins, to their honor in the Church on earth.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“no divine anger for sin, but only mercy.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“It is like a shadow, visible only by the darkness cast when love is obscured.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“sweet humanity of Christ could suffer only once, his goodness can never cease offering it....”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“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....”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“O God, in you I was conceived and born. Thank you for Jesus’ labor to make me your child by water and his maternal blood in the Spirit. Amen.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“JESUS CHRIST, WHO OPPOSES GOOD to evil, is our true Mother. We have our being from him, where the foundation of motherhood begins.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“IN THIS LITTLE THING [LIKE a hazelnut] I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that he loves it, and the third is that God preserves it.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Pray for all who have suffered shame, abuse, or neglect that leads them to despise themselves. May they experience this God in whom there is mercy, healing, and complete acceptance.   PRAYER”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“One of the highest services a person of faith can perform is prayer for family and friends, for one’s community of faith, for the victims of injustice, and for one’s enemies.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“WITH THIS THE FIEND IS overcome.” Our Lord said this to me with reference to his blessed Passion, as he had shown it before. In this he showed a part of the fiend’s malice, and all of his impotence, because he showed that his Passion is the overcoming of the fiend.... Also I saw our Lord scorn [the devil’s] malice and despise him as nothing, and he wants us to do so. Because of this sight I laughed greatly, and that made those around me to laugh as well; and their laughter was pleasing to me ... for I understood that we may laugh, to comfort ourselves and rejoice in God, because the devil is overcome.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“when I say “the servant,” that means Christ’s humanity, which is the true Adam.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“The LORD is near to the brokenhearted,
and saves those whose spirits are crushed....
O LORD, you redeem the life of your servants,
and those who put their trust in you will not be punished. Psalm 34:18, 22 (ELW)”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“And the loving regard which [the lord] kept constantly on his servant, and especially when he fell ... could melt our hearts for love and break them in two for joy.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Julian speaks of union with God as the great and compelling desire of the soul. Is this the desire that underlies your prayer or are there other desires that move you to pray? Explain.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Make a list of the many reasons that you and others pray.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Do you think that dryness in prayer reflects on the faith and commitment of the one who prays? Explain.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Write about any ways in which you sense the Spirit moving in your prayer to unite you to Christ and”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Trying to suppress our fears only gives them more power. Write a prayer expressing your fears, then be still and listen for God’s response.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Why do you think our culture avoids talking about sin? • Julian asserts that contemplating sin and its effects can lead us to despair and cause us to forget about the reality of God who redeems all things.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Does this ring true to your experience? How do you tend to recognize sin in yourself or others?”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“O God, your love poured out in Jesus washes over each human being personally. Help me bathe in this love today and let it spill out to others through me. Amen.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“imagine what such an experience might be like for you.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. John 13:1b”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“despise him as nothing just as Jesus did.”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“Also I saw our Lord scorn [the devil’s] malice and despise him as nothing, and he wants us to do so. Because of this sight I laughed greatly, and that made those around me to laugh as well; and their laughter was pleasing to me”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich

“I did not want to look up, for I would rather have remained in that pain until Judgment Day than have come to heaven any other way than by him....”
― Lisa E. Dahill, Forty Day Journey Julian of Norwich