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That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
Brother Lawrence
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Brother Lawrence
Age: 77 †
Born: 1614
Born: January 1
Died: 1691
Died: February 12
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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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Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.
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Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God''s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?
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The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.
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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 quickly calm the sea.
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The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.
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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 His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.
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A little lifting of the heart suffices a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
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The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you
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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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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 boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
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In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
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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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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 it who practice and experience it.
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The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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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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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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Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you leave him not alone.
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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 love with which it is performed.
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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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