I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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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If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.
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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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Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
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We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
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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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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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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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Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
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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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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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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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Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
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Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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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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