“Glad and joyous and sweet is the Blissful lovely Cheer of our Lord to our souls.”

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 71

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English theologian and anchoress 1342–1416

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“I have signifying of Three manners of Cheer of our Lord. The first is Cheer of Passion, as He shewed while He was here in this life, dying. Though this Beholding be mournful and troubled, yet it is glad and joyous: for He is God.”

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The second manner of Cheer is Ruth and Compassion: and this sheweth He, with sureness of Keeping, to all His lovers that betake them to His mercy. The third is the Blissful Cheer, as it shall be without end: and this was oftenest and longest-continued.
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 71

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“Ever the more clearly that the soul seeth this Blissful Cheer by grace of loving, the more it longeth to see it in fulness.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 72
Context: Ever the more clearly that the soul seeth this Blissful Cheer by grace of loving, the more it longeth to see it in fulness. For notwithstanding that our Lord God dwelleth in us and is here with us, and albeit He claspeth us and encloseth us for tender love that He may never leave us, and is more near to us than tongue can tell or heart can think, yet may we never stint of moaning nor of weeping nor of longing till when we see Him clearly in His Blissful Countenance. For in that precious blissful sight there may no woe abide, nor any weal fail.

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“Our Lord Jesus sheweth in love His blissful heart even cloven in two, rejoicing.”

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“In preieres and penaunce putten hem manye,
Al for the love of Oure Lord lyveden ful streyte
In hope to have heveneriche blisse”

In prayers and penance put themselves many
All for the love of Our Lord living full straight
In hope to have heaven-rich bliss
B-Text, Prologue, line 25.
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“If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of the Lord.”

Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.

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