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.
BROTHER LAWRENCEThe world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
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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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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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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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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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Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!
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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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Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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That 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.
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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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It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
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