Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
BROTHER LAWRENCELet us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God’s constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.
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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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Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
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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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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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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Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
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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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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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We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
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Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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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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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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