Brother Lawrence Quotes

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit's presence when the Word is really precious to a man 's soul.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

Your soul is between you and God.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that received through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. . . . I urge you to continue throughout your lives to cultivate a heart in tune with the Spirit. If you do so, your lives will be enriched. You will feel a kinship with God our Eternal Father. You will taste the sweetness of joy that can be had in no other way.

Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.