Brother Lawrence Quotes

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

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.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

Perhaps we should stop talking about being faithful to have a quiet time with God each day, as if we were doing something to earn a reward. It would be better to talk about the privilege of spending time with the God of the universe and the importance for our own sake of being consistent in that practice.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

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

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

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

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

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

Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.

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

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.