Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
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.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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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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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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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Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
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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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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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Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
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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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God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.
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If we are truly devoted to doing God’s will, pain and pleasure won’t make any difference to us.
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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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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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Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.
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