Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
BROTHER LAWRENCEHave courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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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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The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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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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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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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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In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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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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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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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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 is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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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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Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
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