“By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing toward God we are made worthy.”

— Julian of Norwich

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 39
Context: By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing toward God we are made worthy. These are three means, as I understand, whereby that all souls come to heaven: that is to say, that have been sinners in earth and shall be saved: for by these three medicines it behoveth that every soul be healed.

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English theologian and anchoress 1342–1416

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