Brother Lawrence Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

  Brother Lawrence

  Worship, Truth Is, Worship God

• 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.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Brother Lawrence, Aeterna Press (1905). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.32, Aeterna Press

• Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

  Brother Lawrence

  Humility, Worship, Devotion

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.28, Booklassic

• I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

  Brother Lawrence

  Desire, Worship

  Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.22, Courier Corporation

• A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Heart, Remembrance

• I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Soul, Secret

• To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?

  Brother Lawrence

  Desire, Worship, Moments

• GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

  Brother Lawrence

  Soul, Desire, Worship

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.26, Booklassic

• To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.

  Brother Lawrence

  Worship Music, Worship God, Willing

• The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

  Brother Lawrence

  Perfect, Worship, Eternity

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.13, Baker Books

• God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

  Brother Lawrence

  Humble, Soul, Depth

• What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Heart, Giving

• We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.

  Brother Lawrence

  Kings, Cake, Grace

  Brother Lawrence (2006). “The Practice of the Presence of God, and the Spiritual Maxims”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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