All Shall Be Well

Julian of Norwich - from Divine Revelations of Love

“And for the tender love that our good Lord

hath to all that shall be saved,

He comforteth readily and sweetly,

signifying thus:

It is sooth that sin is cause of all this pain;

but all shall be well,

and all shall be well,

and all manner of thing shall be well.”

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T.S. Eliot - from Little Gidding

“Whatever we inherit from the fortunate

We have taken from the defeated

What they had to leave us - a symbol;

A symbol perfected in death.

And all shall be well and

All manner of thing shall be well

By the purification of the motive

In the ground of our beseeching.”