Frank Laubach Quotes

• The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

  Frank Laubach

  Running, Prayer, Ideas

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• All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' In these chinks of time, ask Him: 'Lord, think Thy thoughts in my mind. What is on Thy mind for me to do now?' When we ask Christ, 'What next?' we tune in and give Him a chance to pour His ideas through our enkindled imagination. If we persist, it becomes a habit.

  Frank Laubach

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

  Frank Laubach

  Faith, God, Christian

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• I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.

  Frank Laubach

  Glasses, People, Looks

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.

  Frank Laubach

  Giving, Christ, More Time

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.33, SPCK

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• God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

  Frank Laubach

  Years, Giving, Mind

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'

  Frank Laubach

  Father, Years, Voice

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.8, SPCK

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• Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

  Frank Laubach

  Most Amazing, Conversation, Companion

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.16, SPCK

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• The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

  Frank Laubach

  Growing Up, Hands, Unseen

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.9, SPCK

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• Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

  Frank Laubach

  Ideas, Giving, Listening

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• Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.

  Frank Laubach

  Giving, Privilege, Fellowship With God

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• The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

  Frank Laubach

  Winning, Simple, World

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

  Frank Laubach

  Prayer, Healing, World

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• Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

  Frank Laubach

  Mind, Flow, Return

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• The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.

  Frank Laubach

  Wish, Trophies, Scar

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• If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

  Frank Laubach

  Sleepy, Devotion, Form

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.45, SPCK

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• There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.

  Frank Laubach

  Castles, Defeat, Fortune

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.

  Frank Laubach

  White, People, New Life

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• I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. […] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will. This seems to be all I need to think about.

  Frank Laubach

  Thinking, Perfect, Needs

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.9, SPCK

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• I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.

  Frank Laubach

  Fellowship, Thrill, Made

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.14, SPCK

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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