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From The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence

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Quote · Love

I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

God has infinite treasure to bestow, and we take up with a little sensible devotion.

Quote · Love

That all bodily mortifications and other exercises are useless, but as they serve to arrive at the union with GOD by love; that he had well considered this, and found it the shortest way to go straight to Him by a continual exercise of love, and doing all things for His sake.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

Love sweetens pains; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

By often repeating these acts, they become habitual, and the presence of God is rendered as it were natural to us.

Quote · Faith & Trust

We need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance.

Quote · Faith & Trust

That the trust we put in GOD honours Him much, and draws down great graces.

Quote · Hope & Comfort

‘Tis paradise to suffer and be with Him; so that if in this life we would enjoy the peace of paradise, we must accustom ourselves to a familiar, humble, affectionate conversation with Him.

Quote · Faith & Trust

The more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

Quote · Love

We must know before we can love. 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.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward even in sleep.

Quote · Peace & Calm

No, we must serve GOD in a holy freedom, we must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet; recalling our mind to GOD mildly and with tranquillity, as often as we find it wandering from Him.

Quote · Peace & Calm

He was more united to GOD in his outward employments, than when he left them for devotion in retirement.

Quote · Faith & Trust

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

Quote · Peace & Calm

When I thought of nothing but to end my days in these troubles (which did not at all diminish the trust I had in GOD, and which served only to increase my faith), I found myself changed all at once; and my soul, which till that time was in trouble, felt a profound inward peace, as if she were in her centre and place of rest.

Quote · Faith & Trust

GOD has many ways of drawing us to Himself. He sometimes hides Himself from us: but faith alone, which will not fail us in time of need, ought to be our support, and the foundation of our confidence, which must be all in GOD.

Quote · Grace & Salvation

That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, only endeavouring to love Him with all our hearts.

Quote · Gratitude & Joy

I feel joys so continual, and so great, that I can scarce contain them.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Many do not advance in the Christian progress, because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of GOD, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.

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