Brother Lawrence Quotes

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

God is with those who persevere.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ, you have everything.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.