Brother Lawrence Quotes

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

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

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

A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.

For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.

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.

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

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

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

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.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

Good praying is more easily caught than taught.