To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.
BROTHER LAWRENCETo worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.
BROTHER LAWRENCELet us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
BROTHER LAWRENCEWe 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.
BROTHER LAWRENCEThat 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.
BROTHER LAWRENCEBelieve me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
BROTHER LAWRENCEThe world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
BROTHER LAWRENCEI desire only Him and to be wholly His.
BROTHER LAWRENCEIn the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
BROTHER LAWRENCEOur only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
BROTHER LAWRENCEGod always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.
BROTHER LAWRENCEPrayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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.
BROTHER LAWRENCEIt 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.
BROTHER LAWRENCEThat all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.
BROTHER LAWRENCEHave 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.
BROTHER LAWRENCELord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
BROTHER LAWRENCE