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“The Presence of God is an applying of our spirit to GOD, or a realization of GOD as present, which is borne home to us either by the imagination or by the understanding.”
― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims

“Those who keep careful watch over their conscience are not often liable to form rash judgments, for just as when the clouds lower the bees make for the shelter of their hive, so really good people shrink back into themselves, and refuse to be mixed up with the clouds and fogs of their neighbour’s questionable doings, and rather than meddle with others, they consecrate their energies on their own improvement and good resolutions. No surer sign of an unprofitable life than when people give way to censoriousness and inquisitiveness into the lives of other men.”
― Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life - Enhanced Version

“certain persons have made a great mistake when, seeking to cultivate some special virtue, they attempt to obtrude it on all occasions, like the ancient philosophers we read of, who were always laughing or weeping. Worse still if they take upon themselves to censure those who do not make a continual study of this their pet virtue.”
― Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life - Enhanced Version

“Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving GoD."
-BROTHER LAWRENCE.”
― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims