Best Brother Lawrence Quotes
- Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence God
- Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God. Believe
- Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God. Business
- In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him… All
- Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing. God
- 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… All
- God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him. Always Gave
- 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… Awake
- It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done. God
- The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God. Appears
- Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. All
- Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to… All
- Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly… All
- The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more… Desire
- Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable… Acceptable
- It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God. From
- We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if… Afterwards
- 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
- Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. All
- We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception… Abandonment
- O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i… Action
- We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the… God
- Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning,… All
- He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for… Act
- How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is… All