Top 80 Brother Lawrence Quotes
#1. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
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#2. The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.
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#3. Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.
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#5. Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.
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#6. To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
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#7. He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts.
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#8. It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.
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#9. Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
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#11. Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
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#12. We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.
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#13. Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
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#14. There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
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#15. We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
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#16. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.
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#17. All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.
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#18. The Presence of God is an applying of our spirit to GOD, or a realization of GOD as present, which is borne home to us either by the imagination or by the understanding.
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#19. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
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#20. That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.
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#21. Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.
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#22. Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.
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#23. GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.
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#24. We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
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#25. There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.
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#26. Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God ... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.
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#27. That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.
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#28. The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you
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#29. That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned
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#30. In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.
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#31. I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.
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#32. It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.
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#33. I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.
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#34. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
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#35. I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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#36. Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
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#37. People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.
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#38. Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.
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#39. We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
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#40. Give Him thanks, if you please, with me, for His great goodness towards me, which I can never sufficiently admire, for the many favors He has done to so miserable a sinner as I am. May all things praise Him. Amen.
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#41. That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging the strength comes from Him.
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#42. I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.
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#44. The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.
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#45. To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.
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#46. My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.
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#47. Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
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#48. Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
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#49. We must, nevertheless, always work at it, because not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back.
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#50. The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.
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#51. If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.
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#52. There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
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#53. Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
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#54. How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
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#55. That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.
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#56. If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.
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#57. Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.
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#58. In the way of GOD thoughts count for little, love is everything.
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#59. God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.
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#60. That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
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#61. The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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#62. That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
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#63. It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
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#64. We have to know someone before we can truly love him. In order to know God, we must think about Him often. Once we get to know Him, we will think about Him even more often, because where our treasure is, there also is our heart!
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#65. If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.
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#66. Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.
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#67. If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.
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#68. What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.
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#69. In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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#70. That GOD always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but ask to please Him.
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#71. It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.
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#72. We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
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#73. That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.
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#74. We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then.
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#75. A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
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#76. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
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#77. Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
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#78. That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.
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#79. The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
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#80. I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God ... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence ... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.
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