Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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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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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In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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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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God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.
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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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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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I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.
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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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