Brother Lawrence Quotes

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

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

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

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.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.