Revelations of Divine Love
The earliest surviving book written in English by a woman. In May 1373, the anchoress Julian of Norwich received sixteen visions of Christ's love during a severe illness. She spent twenty years meditating on their meaning, producing this luminous theology of divine love — from the famous hazelnut vision ("a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand") to the words that have comforted believers for six centuries: "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
Source: ccel.org · Modernized for readability
✦ Table of Contents · 86 Chapters
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A Revelation of Love--in Sixteen Showings
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A simple creature unlettered.--Which creature afore desired three gifts of
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I desired to suffer with Him
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I saw . . . as it were in the time of His Passion . . . And in the same
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God, of Your Goodness, give me Yourself;--only in You I have all
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The Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it comes down to the lowest
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The Showing is not other than of faith, nor less nor more
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In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to my fellow-Christians that
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If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought
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God wills to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted
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All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all." "Sin is
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The precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus
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The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every
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It is not God's will that we follow the feeling of pains in sorrow and
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A Part of His Passion
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How might any pain be more to me than to see Him that is all my life, and all
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When He was in pain, we were in pain
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Thus was I learned to choose Jesus for my Heaven, whom I saw only in pain at
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For every man's sin that shall be saved He suffered, and every man's sorrow
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We be now with Him in His Pains and His Passion, dying. We shall be with Him
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The Love that made Him to suffer passes so far all His Pains as Heaven is
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The Glad Giver
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Our Lord looked unto His [wounded] Side, and beheld, rejoicing. . . .
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I wot well that you would see my blessed Mother. . . .
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It is I, it is I
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Often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of
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Each brotherly compassion that man has on his fellow Christians, with
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How could all be well, for the great harm that is come by sin to the
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Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our
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The Spiritual Thirst (which was in Him from without beginning) is desire in
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There be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it
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It is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He has
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All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our
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I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved. . . . It
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My sin shall not hinder His Goodness working. . . . A deed shall be done--as
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In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin,
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In Heaven "the token of sin is turned to worship."--
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Sin is the sharpest scourge. . . . By contrition we are made clean, by
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True love teaches us that we should hate sin only for love." "To me was
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I am the Ground of your beseeching.
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Prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with
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Prayer uniteth the soul to God
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God is endless, sovereign Truth,--Wisdom,--Love, not-made; and man's Soul is
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All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are
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It is needful to see and to know that we are sinners: wherefore we deserve
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We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and
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I beheld the property of Mercy, and I beheld the property of Grace: which
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Where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath has. no place.
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The blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us." "In the sight of God the
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He is the Head, and we be His members." "Therefore our Father nor may nor
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We have now matter of mourning: for our sin is cause of Christ's pains; and
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In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin,
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Faith is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure
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Christ is our Way"--"Mankind shall be restored from double death
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God is nearer to us than our own soul
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In Christ our two natures are united
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All our life is in three: Nature, Mercy, Grace.' The high Might of the
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Jesus Christ that doeth Good against evil is our Very Mother: we have our
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The Kind, loving, Mother
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By the assay of this falling we shall have an high marvellous knowing of Love
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God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature: and all natures that He has
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As verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unkind"--a disease or monstrous
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You shall come up above
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The Charity of God makes in us such a unity that, when it is truly seen, no
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All was closed, and I saw no more." "For the folly of feeling a little bodily
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The place that Jesus takes in our soul He shall never remove from, without
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He said not:
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I was delivered from the Enemy by the virtue of Christ's Passion
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Above the Faith is no goodness kept in this life, as to my sight, and beneath
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Three manners of looking seen in our Lord's Countenance
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As long as we be meddling with any part of sin we shall never see clearly the
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Two manners of sickness that we have: impatience, or sloth;--despair, or
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There is no dread that fully pleases God in us but reverent dread
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We shall see verily the cause of all things that He has done; and evermore
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The soul that beholds the fair nature of our Lord Jesus, it hateth no hell
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Accuse not yourself overmuch, deeming that your tribulation and your woe is all
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Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation by the special gift of our
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I was taught that I should see mine own sin, and not other men's sin except
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Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all." Love
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God sees all our living a penance: for nature-longing of our love is to Him
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In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love
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Life, Love, and Light
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Charity
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Lord, blessed mayest You be, for it is thus: it is well
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Love was our Lord's Meaning
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