Frank Laubach Quotes

#1. We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.

Frank Laubach

#2. It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.

Frank Laubach

#3. We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Frank Laubach

#4. Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

Frank Laubach

#5. I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. [ ... ] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will. This seems to be all I need to think about.

Frank Laubach

#6. Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.

Frank Laubach

#7. The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

Frank Laubach

#8. I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.

Frank Laubach

#9. The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.

Frank Laubach

#10. The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

Frank Laubach

#11. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

Frank Laubach

#12. If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

Frank Laubach

#13. Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles ... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

Frank Laubach

#14. The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

Frank Laubach

#15. But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'

Frank Laubach