This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Julian Of NorwichRead
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the relationship between truth, wisdom, and divine love.
In this quote by Julian of Norwich, the author suggests that truth allows one to perceive the divine, while wisdom enables a deeper contemplation of God. The synthesis of these two faculties leads to a profound spiritual joy and recognition of God as love, illustrating that understanding and reverence for the divine is a source of delight in life.
Themes
TruthWisdomGodLoveDelight
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon about the nature of God and love.
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And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.
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Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.
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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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