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 1 Pref      |       EDITOR’S PREFACE ~ ~Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite lay brother,
 2 Pref      |        troubled as today, Brother Lawrence, discovered, then followed,
 3 Pref      |      words, we learn that Brother Lawrence's first ten years were full
 4 Pref      |         of joyful spirit, Brother Lawrence shunned attention and the
 5 Pref      | conversations he had with Brother Lawrence. ~In this small book, through
 6 Pref      |        and conversations, Brother Lawrence simply and beautifully explains
 7 Pref      |           from the heart. Brother Lawrence left the gift of a way of
 8 Pref      |        anywhere, anytime. Brother Lawrence also left the gift of a
 9 Pref      |        hundred years ago.~Brother Lawrence died in 1691, having practiced
10 Conv,  Int|    Beaufort's interviews, Brother Lawrence was in his late fifties.
11 Conv,  1  |          first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the 3rd of August,
12 Conv,  1  |         and fruit appear, Brother Lawrence received a high view of
13 Conv,  1  |         had lived since. ~Brother Lawrence said he had been footman
14 Conv,  1  |     pleasures to God. But Brother Lawrence said that God had disappointed
15 Conv,  1  |           in that state. ~Brother Lawrence related that we should establish
16 Conv,  1  |          further trouble.~Brother Lawrence said to arrive at such resignation
17 Conv,  1  |        first conversation Brother Lawrence said that if my purpose
18 Conv,  2  |       Second Conversation~Brother Lawrence told me he had always been
19 Conv,  2  |         From that time on Brother Lawrence lived his life in perfect
20 Conv,  2  |       them in abundance. ~Brother Lawrence said that in order to form
21 Conv,  2  |      uneasiness about it.~Brother Lawrence said we ought to act with
22 Conv,  2  |           to grant it, as Brother Lawrence had often experienced.~He
23 Conv,  2  |          trouble of mind, Brother Lawrence had consulted nobody. Knowing
24 Conv,  2  |       give no account of. Brother Lawrence emphasized that all bodily
25 Conv,  2  |  monuments of His mercy. ~Brother Lawrence said the greatest pains
26 Conv,  3  |        Third Conversation~Brother Lawrence told me that the foundation
27 Conv,  3  | everything for His sake. ~Brother Lawrence often experienced the ready
28 Conv,  3  |           in retirement. ~Brother Lawrence said that the worst that
29 Conv,  3  |         to happen to him. Brother Lawrence, therefore, said he feared
30 Conv,  3  |          perplexed. Since Brother Lawrence was ready to lay down his
31 Conv,  3  |  everything became easy. ~Brother Lawrence said that many do not advance
32 Conv,  4  |       Fourth Conversation~Brother Lawrence spoke with great openness
33 Conv,  4  |       merits of our Lord. Brother Lawrence said that God never failed
34 Conv,  4  |        failed except when Brother Lawrence's thoughts had wandered
35 Conv,  4  |         the love of God. ~Brother Lawrence felt it was a great delusion
36 Conv,  4  |           grew stronger. ~Brother Lawrence said we ought, once for
37 Conv,  4  |    through all eternity. ~Brother Lawrence said when we enter upon
38 Conv,  4  |    habitual sense of God, Brother Lawrence told him that, since his
39 Conv,  4  |        myself to it." ~As Brother Lawrence had found such an advantage
40 Lett,  Int|              Introduction~Brother Lawrence's letters are the very heart
41 Lett,  Int|         the third person, Brother Lawrence describing his own experience.~ ~
42 Lett,  15 |        for one another. ~ Brother Lawrence died a few days after this