Revelations of Divine Love
1. “A Revelation of Love—in Sixteen Shewings”2. “A simple creature unlettered.—Which creature afore desired three gifts of God”3. “I desired to suffer with Him”4. “I saw . . . as it were in the time of His Passion . . . And in the same Shewing suddenly the Trinity filled my heart with utmost joy”5. “God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself;—only in Thee I have all”6. “The Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need”7. “The Shewing 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 they might see and know the same that I saw”9. “If I look singularly to myself, I am right nought”10. “God willeth 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 no deed”12. “The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous”13. “The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ ”14. “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.”15. “It is not God’s will that we follow the feeling of pains in sorrow and mourning for them”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 my bliss, and all my joy suffer?”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 that time ”20. “For every man’s sin that shall be saved He suffered, and every man’s sorrow and desolation He saw, and sorrowed for Kinship and Love”21. “We be now with Him in His Pains and His Passion, dying. We shall be with Him in Heaven. Through learning in this little pain that we suffer here, we shall have an high endless knowledge of God which we could never have without that”22. “The Love that made Him to suffer passeth so far all His Pains as Heaven is above Earth”23. “The Glad Giver”24. “Our Lord looked unto His [wounded] Side, and beheld, rejoicing. . . .25. “I wot well that thou wouldst 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 sin was not hindered: for then, methought, all should have been well.” “Sin is behovable—[playeth a needful part]—; but all shall be well”28. “Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians, with charity, it is Christ in him”29. “How could all be well, for the great harm that is come by sin to the creature?”30. “Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our salvation;—and the part that is hid and shut up from us: all beside our salvation”31. “The Spiritual Thirst (which was in Him from without beginning) is desire in Him as long as we be in need, drawing us up to His Bliss”32. “There be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible that ever it should come to good end.” “That Great Deed ordained . . . by which our Lord God shall make all things well”33. “It is God’s will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be”34. “All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us”35. “I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved. . . . It is more worship to God to behold Him in36. “My sin shall not hinder His Goodness working. . . . A deed shall be done—as we come to Heaven—and it may be known here in part;—though it be truly taken for the general Man, yet it excludeth not the special. For what our good Lord will do by His poor creatures, it is now unknown to me”37. “In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.”—“For failing of Love on our part, therefore is all our travail”38. In Heaven “the token of sin is turned to worship.”—CHAPTER XXXIX40. “True love teacheth us that we should hate sin only for love.” “To me was shewed no harder hell than sin.” “God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it”CHAPTER XLI42. “Prayer is a right understanding of that fulness of joy that is to come, with accordant longing and sure trust”43. “Prayer uniteth the soul to God”44. “God is endless, sovereign Truth,—Wisdom,—Love, not-made; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made”45. “All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are comprehended in these two judgments”46. “It is needful to see and to know that we are sinners: wherefore we deserve pain and wrath.” “He is God: Good, Life, Truth, Love, Peace: His Clarity and His Unity suffereth Him not to be wroth”47. “We fail oftentimes of the sight of Him, and anon we fall into our self, and then find we no feeling of right,—nought but contrariness that is in our self”48. “I beheld the property of Mercy, and I beheld the property of Grace: which have two manners of working in one love ”49. “Where our Lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath. no place.” “Immediately is the soul made at one with God when it is truly set at peace in itself”50. “The blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us.” “In the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be dead”51. “He is the Head, and we be His members.” “Therefore our Father nor may nor will more blame assign to us than to His own Son, precious and worthy Christ”52. “We have now matter of mourning: for our sin is cause of Christ’s pains; and we have, lastingly, matter of joy: for endless love made Him to suffer”53. “In every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.” “Ere that He made us He loved us, and when we were made we loved Him”54. “Faith is nought else but a right understanding, with true belief and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God is in us: Whom we see not”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 Trinity is our Father, and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great Love of the Trinity is our Lord”59. “Jesus Christ that doeth Good against evil is our Very Mother: we have our Being of Him where the Ground of Motherhood beginneth,—with all the sweet Keeping by Love, that endlessly followeth.”60. “The Kind, loving, Mother”61. “By the assay of this falling we shall have an high marvellous knowing of Love in God, without end. For strong and marvellous is that love which may not, nor will not, be broken for trespass”62. “God is Very Father and Very Mother of Nature: and all natures that He hath made to flow out of Him to work His will shall be restored and brought again into Him by the salvation of Mankind through the working of Grace”63. “As verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unkind”—a disease or monstrous thing against nature. “He shall heal us full fair.”CHAPTER LXIV65. “The Charity of God maketh in us such a unity that, when it is truly seen, no man can part himself from other”66. “All was closed, and I saw no more.” “For the folly of feeling a little bodily pain I unwisely lost for the time the comfort of all this blessed Shewing of our Lord God”67. “The place that Jesus taketh in our soul He shall never remove from, without end:—for in us is His homliest home and His endless dwelling.” “Our soul can never have rest in things that are beneath itself—yet may it not abide in the beholding of its self”CHAPTER LXVIII69. “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 the Faith is no help of soul; but71. “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 Blissful Countenance of our Lord”73. “Two manners of sickness that we have: impatience, or sloth;—despair, or mistrustful dread”74. “There is no dread that fully pleaseth God in us but reverent dread”75. “We shall see verily the cause of all things that He hath done; and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that He hath permitted”76. “The soul that beholdeth the fair nature of our Lord Jesus, it hateth no hell but sin”77. “Accuse not thyself overmuch, deeming that thy tribulation and thy woe is all thy fault.” “All thy living is penance profitable.” “In the remedy He willeth that we rejoice”78. “Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation by the special gift of our Lord, yet it is needful to us to have knowledge and sight of our sin and our feebleness”79. “I was taught that I should see mine own sin, and not other men’s sin except it may be for comfort and help of my fellow-Christians” (lxxvi.)80. “Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all.” Love suffereth never to be without Pity”81. “God seeth all our living a penance: for nature-longing of our love is to Him a lasting penance in us.” “His love maketh Him to long”82. “In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love ”83. “Life, Love, and Light”CHAPTER LXXXIV85. “Lord, blessed mayest Thou be, for it is thus: it is well”86. “Love was our Lord’s Meaning”87. 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