Top 90 Brother Lawrence Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.”

— Brother Lawrence

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2. “It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.”

— Brother Lawrence

3. “Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God’s presence.”

— Brother Lawrence

4. “The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God – that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you.”

— Brother Lawrence

5. “The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.”

— Brother Lawrence

6. “I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.”

— Brother Lawrence

7. “It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.”

— Brother Lawrence

8. “We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

— Brother Lawrence

9. “Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!”

— Brother Lawrence

10. “The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.”

— Brother Lawrence

11. “There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.”

— Brother Lawrence

12. “That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.”

— Brother Lawrence

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13. “I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.”

— Brother Lawrence

14. “Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.”

— Brother Lawrence

15. “Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.”

— Brother Lawrence

16. “I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.”

— Brother Lawrence

17. “Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.”

— Brother Lawrence

18. “We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then.”

— Brother Lawrence

19. “Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.”

— Brother Lawrence

20. “If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.”

— Brother Lawrence

21. “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.”

— Brother Lawrence

22. “Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.”

— Brother Lawrence

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

— Brother Lawrence

24. “The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.”

— Brother Lawrence

25. “There’s no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.”

— Brother Lawrence

26. “You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.”

— Brother Lawrence

27. “It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.”

— Brother Lawrence

28. “God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.”

— Brother Lawrence

29. “To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.”

— Brother Lawrence

30. “My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.”

— Brother Lawrence

31. “Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”

— Brother Lawrence

32. “Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.”

— Brother Lawrence

33. “A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.”

— Brother Lawrence

34. “I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.”

— Brother Lawrence

35. “In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.”

— Brother Lawrence

36. “People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.”

— Brother Lawrence

37. “I desire only Him and to be wholly His.”

— Brother Lawrence

38. “If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.”

— Brother Lawrence

39. “Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.”

— Brother Lawrence

40. “We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.”

— Brother Lawrence

41. “In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.”

— Brother Lawrence

42. “To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.”

— Brother Lawrence

43. “We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.”

— Brother Lawrence

44. “Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.”

— Brother Lawrence

45. “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.”

— Brother Lawrence

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

— Brother Lawrence

47. “Loving God and loving one’s neighbor are really the same thing.”

— Brother Lawrence

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

— Brother Lawrence

49. “That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.”

— Brother Lawrence

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

— Brother Lawrence