Top 100 Quotes About Norwich
#3. Julian of Norwich's message is as relevant now as it was in the Middle Ages: God loves us completely, exactly as we are. "Then he
Mirabai Starr
#4. What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
J.B. Priestley
#5. Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.
Steve Coogan
#6. I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.
Philip Pullman
#7. A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.
Adrian Desmond
#8. The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got
Jimmy Greaves
#9. Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.
Stephen Fry
#10. Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
William Cobbett
#11. Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.
Thomas Browne
#12. All shall be well, all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well. Julian of Norwich
Kath O'Sullivan
#13. Chris Hughton has been sacked by Norwich. Now? With 5 games to go? Utterly bonkers!
Gary Lineker
#14. A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself.
The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen - four hundred years afterward.
David Markson
#15. I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.
Beth Orton
#16. For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
Robert Southey
#17. I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
Sam Claflin
#18. We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.
Paul Ince
#19. Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
Julian Of Norwich
#21. Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.
Julian Of Norwich
#22. God is everything that is good, she writes. All life's pleasures and comforts are sacramental; they are God's hands touching us.
Julian Of Norwich
#23. But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
Julian Of Norwich
#24. If one cannot tell a difference between fantasy and reality, it is either that one or a society around mentally ill
Uri Norwich
#25. It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.
Julian Of Norwich
#26. For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
Julian Of Norwich
#27. Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.
Julian Of Norwich
#28. As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
Julian Of Norwich
#29. And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
Julian Of Norwich
#30. Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.
Julian Of Norwich
#31. He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.
Julian Of Norwich
#32. Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
Julian Of Norwich
#33. For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.
Julian Of Norwich
#34. Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
Julian Of Norwich
#35. Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
Julian Of Norwich
#36. Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.
Julian Of Norwich
#37. Every day is getting worse
Do the same things and they hurt
I don't know if I should cry
All I know is that I'm tryin'
I wanna believe in you, I wanna believe in you
So why can't you be, be good to me ...
Grace Norwich
#38. The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
Julian Of Norwich
#39. AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian Of Norwich
#40. Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.
Julian Of Norwich
#41. The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
Julian Of Norwich
#42. It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.
Julian Of Norwich
#43. We are made exactly as God wants us to be. We only need to lift our minds above Earth's empty sorrows so that we can rejoice in the Divine joy.
Julian Of Norwich
#44. Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
Julian Of Norwich
#45. My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.
Julian Of Norwich
#46. He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.
Julian Of Norwich
#47. God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
Julian Of Norwich
#48. When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.
Julian Of Norwich
#49. The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
Julian Of Norwich
#50. All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...
John Julius Norwich
#51. He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
Julian Of Norwich
#52. God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
Julian Of Norwich
#53. The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.
Julian Of Norwich
#54. That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
Julian Of Norwich
#55. We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully ...
Julian Of Norwich
#56. The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
Julian Of Norwich
#57. He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.
Julian Of Norwich
#58. We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Julian Of Norwich
#60. For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
Julian Of Norwich
#61. All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian Of Norwich
#62. If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
Julian Of Norwich
#63. He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Julian Of Norwich
#64. Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
Julian Of Norwich
#65. My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.
William Of Norwich
#70. But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
Julian Of Norwich
#71. We can be still,
So still we start to know
The depth of everything,
So still we hear the stars
Begin to sing....
William Norwich
#72. For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, nor shall know it till it is done;
Julian Of Norwich
#73. God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
Julian Of Norwich
#74. It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
Julian Of Norwich
#75. All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
Julian Of Norwich
#76. For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.
Julian Of Norwich
#77. God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.
Julian Of Norwich
#79. This is our Lord's will ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Julian Of Norwich
#80. Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.
Julian Of Norwich
#82. Some of us believe that God is almighty, and can do everything; and that he is all wise, and may do everything; but that he is all love, and will do everything - there we draw back.
Julian Of Norwich
#83. The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
Julian Of Norwich
#84. The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Julian Of Norwich
#86. Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
Julian Of Norwich
#87. That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well.
Julian Of Norwich
#89. We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
Julian Of Norwich
#90. Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.
Julian Of Norwich
#91. Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
Julian Of Norwich
#92. The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
Julian Of Norwich
#93. If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
Julian Of Norwich
#94. Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.
Julian Of Norwich
#95. Any time we look at our Maker with love, our importance in our own eyes diminishes, and we are filled with awe and humility and love for others.
Julian Of Norwich
#96. God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
Julian Of Norwich
#97. Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
Julian Of Norwich
#98. He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!
Julian Of Norwich
#99. God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.
Julian Of Norwich
#100. Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
Julian Of Norwich
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