"God is al thing that is gode, as to my sight, and the godenes that al thing hath, it is He."
In Chapter 8 Julian comes to the end of her first showing—Christ crowned with thorns—and reviews the insights God has revealed to her in this showing. Six insights in all.
The most famous of these insights is the one from the hazelnut vision: "He that made all things for love; be the same love it is kept and shall be withoute end." Fr. John-Julian’s translation: “He created everything for love and by that same love everything is protected and shall be without end.”
The sixth and final insight from the showing is that "God is al thing that is gode, as to my sight, and the godenes that al thing hath, it is He." In Fr. John-Julian's translation: "God is everything that is good, as I see it, and the goodness that everything has, it is He."
Julian's view is similar to Maximus the Confessor's belief that God is the source and origin of all virtue. As Maximus writes:
There can be no doubt that the one Word of God is the substance of virtue in each person. For our Lord Jesus Christ himself is the substance of all the virtues...It is evident that every person who participates in virtue as a matter of habit unquestionably participates in God, the substance of virtues.
Or, as Julian puts it: God is everything that is good. And the goodness in everything is God.
