Tenth Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
It is pleasing to see all the faith you have in God. May He increase it in you more and more. We cannot have too much trust in so good and faithful a Friend who will never fail us in this world nor in the next.
Ninth Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him. And when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
Eighth Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer. Many words and long discourses are often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man’s gate.
Seventh Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
Gradually become accustomed to worship Him in this way; to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from time to time; in the midst of your business, even every moment if you can.
Sixth Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of God. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth and center of my soul as much as I can.
Fifth Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
I know that for the right practice of it, the heart must be empty of all other things; because God will possess the heart alone. As He cannot possess it alone, without emptying it of all besides, so neither can He act there and do in it what He pleases unless it be left vacant to Him.