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

Brother Lawrence

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Brother Lawrence
Age: 77 †
Born: 1614
Born: January 1
Died: 1691
Died: February 12
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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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I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.
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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 to Him. You need not cry very loud He is nearer to us than we are aware.
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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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My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.
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The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
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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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Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.
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The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
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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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I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
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Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
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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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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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We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.
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To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
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Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
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