Pilgrim's Progress: 10 classic quotes to feed your soulĢ. Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God.AW Tozer: 10 quotes from a 20th century prophet.10 quotes on faith from Queen Elizabeth II.Corrie ten Boom: 10 quotes from the author of The Hiding Place.One need not cry out very loudly He is nearer to us than we think." Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him.
Here are 10 quotes from it.ġ. He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Herman was better known as Brother Lawrence and his book was The Practice of the Presence of God.
But he might have lived and died unremembered if his letters and conversations had not been preserved, by Joseph Beaufort, Grand Vicar of the Archbishop of Paris, and written down in a book that became a classic. His quiet spirituality attracted people from all walks of life to talk with him and learn from him. He was converted at the age of 18 when he saw a tree in the winter stripped of its leaves and thought of how it would be renewed and spring to life again it spoke to him of the power of God.Īn uneducated man who had been a soldier and a footman (he described himself as "a great awkward fellow who broke everything"), he worked in the kitchens in the monastery. Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (1614-1691) was a lay brother at a Paris monastery. Brother Lawrence urged Christians to practise the presence of God.
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