Brother Lawrence Quotes About Knowing God

Quotes about: Knowing God

• In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Brother Lawrence, Aeterna Press (1905). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.32, Aeterna Press

• People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

  Brother Lawrence

  People, Finesse, Method

• Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Desire, Employment, Knowing God

  Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

• 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 the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

  Brother Lawrence

  Pain, Desire, Employment

  Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

• 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 we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

  Brother Lawrence

  Joy, Desire, Increase

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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