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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.

  Brother Lawrence

  Treasure, Riches, Would Be

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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.

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  Soul, Desire, Worship

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

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• We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

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  Affair, Ought, Happens

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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.

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  Rude, One Day, Cost

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

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• That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

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  Yield, Joy, Soul

  Brother Lawrence (2009). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

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  Mind, Trouble, Tranquility

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

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• The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

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  Perfection, Soul, Grace

  Brother Lawrence (2009). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Art, Sake, Determined

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

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

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  Light, Design, Doubt

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

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