Brother Lawrence Quotes

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

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.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

Please, God, send me something to adore.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that, and to learn what is in the world, and not having your minds riveted - yes, I may say riveted - on the cross of Christ, you will go and return in vain...Let your minds be centered on your missions, and labor earnestly to bring souls to Christ.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned