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Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

Brother Lawrence

The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.
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Mean Practice Spiritual
I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.
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God Live Save World
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence
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God Prayer Presence
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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Prayer Simplicity Speak
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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God Willing Worship Music
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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Bears Long Pain
Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
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Joy Pain Sweet Love
Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.
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Loving God Neighbor
It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
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Done God Greatness
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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Christian Forget Thinking
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.
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Devotion Humility Worship
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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Depth Humble Soul
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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Christian Giving Heart
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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Greatness Soul World
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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Believe Practice Three
Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
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Always Dies Presence

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

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