Quotes by : Brother Lawrence

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against....

A little lifting of the heart suffices a little remembrance of God one act of inward worship are prayers....

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should....

When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion,....

That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am....

You need not cry very loud he is nearer to us than we think.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity speak to Him frankly and plainly and implore His....

The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith....

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of....

I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has....

He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes....