Brother Lawrence Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Giving, Soul

  Brother Lawrence (2007). “The Practice of the Presence of God: The Original 17th Century Letters and Conversations of Brother Lawrence”, p.12, Xulon Press

• We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

• Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Book, Practice

  "The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life".

• What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Heart, Giving

• 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

• 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

• Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

  Brother Lawrence

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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