Top 90 Brother Lawrence Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If we are truly devoted to doing God’s will, pain and pleasure won’t make any difference to us.”

— Brother Lawrence

52. “It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God’s will – that is my whole business.”

— Brother Lawrence

53. “Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.”

— Brother Lawrence

54. “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.”

— Brother Lawrence

55. “We have to know someone before we can truly love him. In order to know God, we must think about Him often. Once we get to know Him, we will think about Him even more often, because where our treasure is, there also is our heart!”

— Brother Lawrence

56. “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.”

— Brother Lawrence

57. “All that is necessary is a heart dedicated entirely and solely to Him out of love for Him above all others.”

— Brother Lawrence

58. “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

59. “If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God’s constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.”

— Brother Lawrence

60. “Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.”

— Brother Lawrence

61. “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.”

— Brother Lawrence

62. “Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.”

— Brother Lawrence

63. “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

64. “Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.”

— Brother Lawrence

65. “That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”

— Brother Lawrence

66. “It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord’s presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.”

— Brother Lawrence

67. “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

68. “The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.”

— Brother Lawrence

69. “That 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. That we should not wonder if, in the beginning, we often failed in our endeavors, but that at last we should gain a habit, which will naturally produce its acts in us, without our care, and to our exceeding great delight.”

— Brother Lawrence

70. “That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging the strength comes from Him.”

— Brother Lawrence

71. “That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD.”

— Brother Lawrence

72. “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.”

— Brother Lawrence

73. “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

74. “We ought to seek God’s assistance in our affairs just as they happen.”

— Brother Lawrence

75. “Give Him thanks, if you please, with me, for His great goodness towards me, which I can never sufficiently admire, for the many favors He has done to so miserable a sinner as I am. May all things praise Him. Amen.”

— Brother Lawrence

76. “The Presence of God is an applying of our spirit to GOD, or a realization of GOD as present, which is borne home to us either by the imagination or by the understanding.”

— Brother Lawrence

77. “I made this my business as much all the day long as at the appointed times of prayer; for at all times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thought of GOD. Such has been my common practice ever since I entered in religion; and, though I have done it very imperfectly, yet I have found great advantages by it.”

— Brother Lawrence

78. “Let us seek Him often by faith. He is within us: seek Him not elsewhere. If.”

— Brother Lawrence

79. “Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.”

— Brother Lawrence

80. “In the way of GOD thoughts count for little, love is everything.”

— Brother Lawrence

81. “Love sweetens pains; and when one loves GOD, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage. Do you so, I beseech you; comfort yourself with Him, who is the only Physician of all our maladies. He is the FATHER of the afflicted, always ready to help us. He loves us infinitely more than we imagine: love Him then, and seek not consolation elsewhere.”

— Brother Lawrence

82. “Part of this communion with God is praising, adoring, and loving him incessantly for His infinite goodness and perfection.”

— Brother Lawrence

83. “It is shameful to abandon this divine communion to occupy our minds with trivial matters. We should feed and nourish our souls with high thoughts of God, which yield us great joy in devotion to Him.”

— Brother Lawrence

84. “That as for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them, that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of; that for his part he prayed for them; but knowing that GOD could remedy the mischiefs they did when He pleased, he gave himself no farther trouble.”

— Brother Lawrence

85. “He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts.”

— Brother Lawrence

86. “The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.”

— Brother Lawrence

87. “We must, nevertheless, always work at it, because not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back.”

— Brother Lawrence

88. “That as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all things, and as he endeavored so to do, he had no need of a director to advise him, but that he needed much a Confessor to absolve him. That he was very sensible of his faults, but not discouraged by them; that he confessed them to GOD, but did not plead against Him to excuse them. When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love and adoration.”

— Brother Lawrence

89. “That when he began his business, he said to GOD, with a filial trust in Him, “O my GOD, since Thou art with me, and I must now, in obedience to Thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, I beseech Thee to grant me the grace to continue in Thy Presence; and to this end do Thou prosper me with Thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections.”

— Brother Lawrence

90. “I AM in pain to see you suffer so long; what gives me some ease, and sweetens the feeling I have of your griefs, is that they are proofs of GOD’s love towards you: see them in that view, and you will bear them more easily.”

— Brother Lawrence

91. “When an occasion arose to exercise some virtue, he committed himself to God, saying, “Lord, I cannot do this unless You enable me.” Then he received more than sufficient strength.”

— Brother Lawrence