Practicing His Presence Quotes

“The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.”
― Brother Lawrence, Practicing His Presence

“We need neither art nor science for going to God. All we need is a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, for His sake, and to love Him only.”
― Brother Lawrence, Practicing His Presence

“The whole substance of the Christian life is simply faith, hope, and love. By practicing these we become united to the will of God. Everything else is immaterial and is simply a means of arriving at our end—to be swallowed up in our unity to the will of God through faith and love.”
― Brother Lawrence, Practicing His Presence

“Yet, strain does not seem to do good. At the moment I feel something “let go” inside, lo, God is here! It is a heart-melting “here-ness,” a lovely whispering of father to child; and the reason I did not have it before was that I had failed to let go.”
― Brother Lawrence, Practicing His Presence