Revelations of Divine Love

1 A Revelation of Love--in Sixteen Showings → 2 A simple creature unlettered.--Which creature afore desired three gifts of → 3 I desired to suffer with Him → 4 I saw . . . as it were in the time of His Passion . . . And in the same → 5 God, of Your Goodness, give me Yourself;--only in You I have all → 6 The Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it comes down to the lowest → 7 The Showing is not other than of faith, nor less nor more → 8 In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to my fellow-Christians that → 9 If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought → 10 God wills to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted → 11 All thing that is done, it is well done: for our Lord God doeth all." "Sin is → 12 The precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most → 13 The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus → 14 The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every → 15 It is not God's will that we follow the feeling of pains in sorrow and → 16 A Part of His Passion → 17 How might any pain be more to me than to see Him that is all my life, and all → 18 When He was in pain, we were in pain → 19 Thus was I learned to choose Jesus for my Heaven, whom I saw only in pain at → 20 For every man's sin that shall be saved He suffered, and every man's sorrow → 21 We be now with Him in His Pains and His Passion, dying. We shall be with Him → 22 The Love that made Him to suffer passes so far all His Pains as Heaven is → 23 The Glad Giver → 24 Our Lord looked unto His [wounded] Side, and beheld, rejoicing. . . . → 25 I wot well that you would see my blessed Mother. . . . → 26 It is I, it is I → 27 Often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of → 28 Each brotherly compassion that man has on his fellow Christians, with → 29 How could all be well, for the great harm that is come by sin to the → 30 Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our → 31 The Spiritual Thirst (which was in Him from without beginning) is desire in → 32 There be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it → 33 It is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He has → 34 All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our → 35 I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved. . . . It → 36 My sin shall not hinder His Goodness working. . . . A deed shall be done--as → 37 In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, → 38 In Heaven "the token of sin is turned to worship."-- → 39 Sin is the sharpest scourge. . . . By contrition we are made clean, by → 40 True love teaches us that we should hate sin only for love." "To me was → 41 I am the Ground of your beseeching. → 42 Prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with → 43 Prayer uniteth the soul to God → 44 God is endless, sovereign Truth,--Wisdom,--Love, not-made; and man's Soul is → 45 All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are → 46 It is needful to see and to know that we are sinners: wherefore we deserve → 47 We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and → 48 I beheld the property of Mercy, and I beheld the property of Grace: which → 49 Where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath has. no place. → 50 The blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us." "In the sight of God the → 51 He is the Head, and we be His members." "Therefore our Father nor may nor → 52 We have now matter of mourning: for our sin is cause of Christ's pains; and → 53 In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, → 54 Faith is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure → 55 Christ is our Way"--"Mankind shall be restored from double death → 56 God is nearer to us than our own soul → 57 In Christ our two natures are united → 58 All our life is in three: Nature, Mercy, Grace.' The high Might of the → 59 Jesus Christ that doeth Good against evil is our Very Mother: we have our → 60 The Kind, loving, Mother → 61 By the assay of this falling we shall have an high marvellous knowing of Love → 62 God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature: and all natures that He has → 63 As verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unkind"--a disease or monstrous → 64 You shall come up above → 65 The Charity of God makes in us such a unity that, when it is truly seen, no → 66 All was closed, and I saw no more." "For the folly of feeling a little bodily → 67 The place that Jesus takes in our soul He shall never remove from, without → 68 He said not: → 69 I was delivered from the Enemy by the virtue of Christ's Passion → 70 Above the Faith is no goodness kept in this life, as to my sight, and beneath → 71 Three manners of looking seen in our Lord's Countenance → 72 As long as we be meddling with any part of sin we shall never see clearly the → 73 Two manners of sickness that we have: impatience, or sloth;--despair, or → 74 There is no dread that fully pleases God in us but reverent dread → 75 We shall see verily the cause of all things that He has done; and evermore → 76 The soul that beholds the fair nature of our Lord Jesus, it hateth no hell → 77 Accuse not yourself overmuch, deeming that your tribulation and your woe is all → 78 Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation by the special gift of our → 79 I was taught that I should see mine own sin, and not other men's sin except → 80 Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all." Love → 81 God sees all our living a penance: for nature-longing of our love is to Him → 82 In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love → 83 Life, Love, and Light → 84 Charity → 85 Lord, blessed mayest You be, for it is thus: it is well → 86 Love was our Lord's Meaning →