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Portrait of Brother Lawrence

Brother Lawrence

(1614–1691) Writer

114 quotes in 440 categories

Brother Lawrence was a writer, best known for Practice of the Presence of God.

Quick Facts About Brother Lawrence

Born: January 1, 1614
Died: February 12, 1691
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Practice of the Presence of God

About Brother Lawrence

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, OCD was a French Catholic religious brother who served at a Discalced Carmelite monastery, what is now Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes in Paris. He is best remembered for a posthumous book of his writing, the classic Christian text The Practice of the Presence of God.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Brother Lawrence

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing.…

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Found

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It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

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Enough

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Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and…

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Christianity

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“Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before…

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Spirituality

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“the whole substance of religion was faith, hope and charity;”

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Faith

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In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also…

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God

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If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand…

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Bitter

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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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Food

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“Let us seek Him often by faith. He is within us: seek Him not elsewhere. If”

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Faith

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Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

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Inspirational

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There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

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Christian

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That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg…

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Addresses

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“many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of…

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Christian

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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…

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Contrary

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“in difficulties we need only have recourse to JESUS CHRIST, and beg his grace; with that everything became easy.”

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Adversity

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Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still…

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Christian hope

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“It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always at church: we may make an oratory of our heart wherein…

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Time

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In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first…

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Care

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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.

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Christian

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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…

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Blame

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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…

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Business

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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…

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Capable

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There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

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Christianity

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That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to…

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Blessing

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We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

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Affair

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Brother Lawrence by topic

Love (30) God (22) Prayer (16) Worship (14) Soul (14) Time (12) Spirituality (12) Should (12) Religion (12) Littles (12) Life (12) Presence of god (11) Ifs (11) Thinking (10) Suffering (10)