Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
BROTHER LAWRENCEIn 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.
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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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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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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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I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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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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In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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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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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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Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.
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The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.
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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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