Quotes from Brother Lawrence

That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That GOD seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of his mercy.

That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times: that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his Superior, but that he did not want such retirement. nor ask for it, because his greatest business did not divert him from GOD.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

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