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Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

Brother Lawrence

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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Cake Grace Kings
Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
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Joy Pain Sweet Love
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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Devotion Humility Worship
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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Heart Prayer Remembrance
It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
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Done God Greatness
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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Practice Prayer Sweet
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
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Littles Others Saint Serving
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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Prayer Simplicity Speak
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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Care Littles Order
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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Heart Prayer Remembrance
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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Prayer Secret Soul
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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Cost Day One Rude
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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Desire Soul Worship
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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Christian Giving Heart
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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Greatness Soul World
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
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Delight Love Ourselves

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