Brother Lawrence Quotes

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me would instead look up to God. I am nothing without Him. Everything I do in life and in baseball is to glorify Him.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.