Brother Lawrence Quotes

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.

I have been able to be just a good light to people and just share His love. I wake up every day and [try to] honor God in everything that I do and I may fall short sometimes, but all I want to do is love Him.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?

A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

I take my religion seriously.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

Thankful to have my daughters love the Lord with all their heart.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.