Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
BROTHER LAWRENCEThere 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.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
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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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Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in 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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Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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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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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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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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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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It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
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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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Have 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.
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Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
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Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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