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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.

Brother Lawrence

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
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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God Prayer Presence
Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
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Believe Day Each God Loving
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
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
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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Bears Long Pain
I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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God Live Save World
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
Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.
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Blessing Giving Hands
If we are truly devoted to doing God’s will, pain and pleasure won’t make any difference to us.
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Differences Pain Pleasure
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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Hope Practice Three
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
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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Deceiving God Surrender Trust
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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Greatness Soul World
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
It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God’s will – that is my whole business.
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Long Matter Suffering

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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