Second Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
In conversation some days ago a devout person told me the spiritual life was a life of grace, which begins with servile fear, which is increased by hope of eternal life, and which is consummated by pure love.
First Letter – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence’s letters are the very heart and soul of what is titled ‘The Practice of the Presence of God’. All of these letters were written during the last ten years of his life.
Third Conversation – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence told me that the foundation of the spiritual life in him had been a high notion and esteem of God in faith. When he had once well established his faith he had no other care but to reject every other thought so he might perform all his actions for the love of God.
First Conversation – THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD – Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence related that we should establish ourselves in a sense of God’s Presence by continually conversing with Him. It was a shameful thing to quit His conversation to think of trifles and fooleries.
To Pray Is to Breath – Kierkegaard – Sickness Unto Death
So to pray is to breathe, possibility, is for the self what oxygen is for breathing. But for possibility alone or for necessity alone to supply the conditions for the breathing of prayer is no more possible than it is for a man to breathe oxygen alone or nitrogen alone. For in order to pray […]
The Cloud of Unknowing – Author Unknown
A contemplative prentice should be occupied, the which be these—Lesson, Meditation, and Orison: … they may be called—Reading, Thinking, and Praying