Brother Lawrence Quotes

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

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

I'm actually very spiritual.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

Meditation is waiting on God.

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.