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.
BROTHER LAWRENCEBelieve me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
More Brother Lawrence Quotes
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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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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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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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Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
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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 desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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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In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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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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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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Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.
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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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Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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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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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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