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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 and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

  Brother Lawrence

  Rude, One Day, Cost

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.38, Booklassic

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• 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

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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 everything but Divine love: and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Past, Blessing

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.

  Brother Lawrence

  Art, Sake, Determined

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “Mystical Paths to God: Three Journeys”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Mind, Trouble, Tranquility

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Brother Lawrence

  Offering, Knowing, Giving

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.12, Baker Books

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• GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

  Brother Lawrence

  Soul, Desire, Worship

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.26, Booklassic

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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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  Treasure, Riches, Would Be

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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.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Father, Light

  Brother Lawrence (of the Resurrection), Joseph de Beaufort (1874). “Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence).”, p.62, New York ; Chicago ; Toronto : F.H. Revell

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• God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Light, Design, Doubt

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.11, Booklassic

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• Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Exercise, Progress

  Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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