Brother Lawrence Quotes

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Love is the only prayer I know.

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Everybody has their thing that they're truthful about. My thing is just a love of God... so that's what I'm going to do.

I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

The first purpose of your life is to be loved by God! Yes, it is important to serve him, obey, and trust him, but your first purpose is to love him.

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

I just want to give my love to God.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.