God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.
BROTHER LAWRENCETo worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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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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Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.
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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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Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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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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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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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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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I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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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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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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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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The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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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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