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501 Pref | representative and counsel to the local archbishop, first published
502 Conv, 4 | He was never hasty nor loitering, but did each thing in its
503 Lett, Int| life. Many of them were to long-time friends, a Carmelite sister
504 Lett, 4 | great a treasure he is no longer in an anxious search after
505 Pref | around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His
506 Lett, 10 | takes advantage of the loss he has had and puts all
507 Lett, 7 | Him. You need not cry very loud. He is nearer to us than
508 Conv, 4 | familiar conversation with his Maker, imploring His grace, and
509 | makes
510 Lett, 13 | only Physician of all our maladies. He is the Father of the
511 Lett, 13 | proved unsuccessful and your malady still increases, it will
512 Conv, 1 | not more considering the malice sinners were capable of.
513 Lett, 3 | inward worship, though upon a march, and sword in hand, are
514 Pref | included, as introductory material, the content of four conversations
515 Lett, 7 | God. He requires no great matters of us; a little remembrance
516 Lett, 7 | your heart to Him at your meals and when you are in company.
517 Lett, 15 | Knowledge is commonly the measure of love. The deeper and
518 Lett, 4 | have taken such effectual measures that you will not be surprised.
519 Conv, 2 | Nevertheless, at first he had meditated for some time, but afterwards
520 Conv, 4 | reasonings and elaborate meditations. By this short and sure
521 Lett, 4 | heart towards God, or by a meek and fond regard to Him,
522 Lett, 7 | to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every
523 Pref | grew to over one hundred members. ~In times as troubled as
524 Conv, 2 | must hinder my falling and mend what is amiss." Then, after
525 Conv, 2 | very well performed. He mentioned he had been sent into Auvergne
526 Lett, 9 | assurance to that Father of mercies, who is always ready to
527 Lett, 1 | are to be imputed to the mere mercy and goodness of God,
528 Conv, 4 | relying upon the infinite merits of our Lord. Brother Lawrence
529 Conv, 1 | disappointed him because he met with nothing but satisfaction
530 Pref | mind" that often comes at mid-life, he entered a newly established
531 Lett, 6 | recalling our mind to God mildly and with tranquillity as
532 Lett, 14 | displease Him. When our minds are thus employed about
533 Lett, 2 | without any care or effort of mine. It continues as if my spirit
534 Conv, 1 | over all the passions which mingle in spiritual things as well
535 Lett, 1 | times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my
536 Conv, 3 | found in God, as in a clear mirror, all that was fit for him
537 Lett, 1 | favors He has done to so miserable a sinner as I am.~May all
538 Conv, 1 | said that as far as the miseries and sins he heard of daily
539 Conv, 4 | subject to all kinds of misery, and numberless accidents,
540 Lett, 4 | for we die but once, and a mistake there is irretrievable.~
541 Conv, 4 | lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting
542 Lett, 8 | roving. But as the will is mistress of all our faculties, she
543 Conv, 2 | greatest sinners as more signal monuments of His mercy. ~Brother Lawrence
544 Conv, 2 | God. All possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the
545 Conv, 2 | emphasized that all bodily mortifications and other exercises are
546 Lett, 2 | that of an infant at the mother's breast. If I dare use
547 Lett, 8 | do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer. Many
548 Lett, Int| or both who were from his native village, perhaps relatives.
549 Lett, 6 | to deprive it sometimes, nay often, of many little pleasures
550 Lett, Int| sister and a sister at a nearby convent, one or both who
551 Lett, 15 | Letter~God knows best what is needful for us. All that He does
552 Conv, 3 | particular exercises while they neglect the love of God which is
553 Lett, 10 | you: why then must God be neglected? Do not forget Him but think
554 Pref | fatal injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him quite
555 Pref | at mid-life, he entered a newly established monastery in
556 | next
557 Pref | Carmelite lay brother, was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil,
558 Lett, 10 | often of God, by day, by night, in your business, and even
559 Lett, 9 | Ninth Letter~The enclosed is an
560 Conv, 4 | the time of prayer. In the noise and clutter of my kitchen,
561 | none
562 Lett, Int| of one of these convents. Note that the fourth letter is
563 Conv, 3 | life in him had been a high notion and esteem of God in faith.
564 Conv, 1 | nourish our souls with high notions of God which would yield
565 Conv, 1 | fooleries. We should feed and nourish our souls with high notions
566 Conv, 4 | in the beginning of his novitiate he spent the hours appointed
567 Conv, 4 | all kinds of misery, and numberless accidents, which trouble
568 Conv, 4 | a filial trust in Him, "O my God, since Thou art with
569 Conv, 4 | with me, and I must now, in obedience to Thy commands, apply my
570 Lett, 9 | she is very fervent and obedient.~Let us thus think often
571 Conv, 2 | from God.~Since he knew his obligation to love God in all things,
572 Lett, 2 | those to which my state obliges me. I make it my business
573 Conv, 4 | affect the beholders. ~It was observed, that in the greatest hurry
574 Lett, 6 | the difficulties that may occur.~I recommend myself to the
575 Lett, 1 | all the difficulties that occurred, without troubling or disquieting
576 Lett, 1 | before us, this hinders our offending Him, and doing anything
577 Conv, 2 | practicing some virtue was offered, he addressed himself to
578 Conv, 4 | severally the things his office required, and when and how
579 Conv, 1 | whereof one alone would oftentimes very much promote our spiritual
580 Lett, 6 | the practice of it in your old age. It is better late than
581 Conv, 4 | Lawrence spoke with great openness of heart concerning his
582 Lett, 4 | Letter~I have taken this opportunity to communicate to you the
583 Conv, 4 | that troubles, temptations, oppositions, and contradictions happen
584 Lett, 7 | at church. We may make an oratory of our heart wherein we
585 Lett, 4 | forcibly stopped against its ordinary course, when it has found
586 | out
587 Pref | limelight, knowing that outside distraction "spoils all."
588 Lett, 4 | and hinder their appearing outwardly.~If sometimes he is a little
589 Lett, 8 | dissipation, they are difficult to overcome. Our mind can draw us, even
590 Lett, 11 | have reason. But think how painful it would be to the greatest
591 Conv, Int| upkeep of over one hundred pairs of sandals, was "rough in
592 Pref | published the letters in a small pamphlet. The following year, in
593 Lett, 8 | before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate.
594 Pref | established monastery in Paris where he became a cook and
595 Pref | destroyed in a fire at his parish church during the Thirty
596 Lett, 15 | we do what we can on our parts, we shall soon see that
597 Lett, 2 | above these thirty years. I pass over many things, that I
598 Lett, 4 | course, when it has found a passage, spreads itself with impetuosity
599 Lett, 2 | attention, and such a general passionate regard to God to whom I
600 Lett, 2 | opinion, to which I always pay a great deference, for I
601 Conv, 2 | When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice
602 Conv, 3 | progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises
603 Lett, 4 | But when He finds a soul penetrated with a lively faith, He
604 Conv, 4 | lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the
605 Lett, 5 | and yours in particular. I perceive that she reckons much upon
606 Conv, 2 | reject them as soon as we perceived their impertinence and return
607 Lett, 3 | but holy exercise. Nobody perceives it, and nothing is easier
608 Conv, 3 | other thought so he might perform all his actions for the
609 Conv, 4 | doubtful and for rightly performing those which we plainly see
610 Lett, 6 | and lawful. God will not permit a soul that desires to be
611 Conv, 3 | to bear whatever evil He permitted to happen to him. Brother
612 Conv, 4 | which trouble us and cause perpetual vicissitudes in our health,
613 Lett, 9 | more.~Let us think of Him perpetually. Let us put all our trust
614 Conv, 3 | had always come away more perplexed. Since Brother Lawrence
615 Conv, 4 | still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these
616 Lett, 6 | in our commerce of love, persevering in His holy presence by
617 Conv, 2 | the world could not have persuaded him to the contrary. This
618 Lett, 2 | days since with a person of piety, he told me the spiritual
619 Lett, 4 | often that we are to be pitied who content ourselves with
620 Conv, 2 | liberty and continual joy. He placed his sins between himself
621 Lett, 11 | the condition in which God places you. However happy you may
622 Lett, 3 | your afflictions. It is a plain mark of the care He takes
623 Lett, 4 | it His graces and favors plentifully. There they flow like a
624 Lett, 2 | capable to satisfy me in that point. Such was my beginning.
625 Conv, 4 | worshippers of God we can possibly be, and as we hope to be
626 Conv, 2 | very well pleased with the post he was now in. Yet he was
627 Lett, 4 | with a lively faith, He pours into it His graces and favors
628 Conv, 1 | view of the Providence and Power of God which has never since
629 Lett, 10 | him another friend more powerful and more inclined to serve
630 Pref | God's presence that is as practical today as it was three hundred
631 Pref | Lawrence died in 1691, having practiced God's presence for over
632 Conv, 2 | them.~When an occasion of practicing some virtue was offered,
633 Lett, 5 | should above all other things preach the practice of the presence
634 Lett, 5 | would have us.~Were I a preacher, I should above all other
635 Pref | EDITOR’S PREFACE ~ ~Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite
636 Lett, 4 | us close. Let us be well prepared for it, for we die but once,
637 Lett, 5 | from Sister M--, who is preparing to make her profession.
638 Lett, 2 | he is to make a statue. Presenting myself thus before God,
639 Lett, 8 | the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity,
640 Conv, 4 | in the kitchen, he still preserved his recollection and heavenly-mindedness.
641 Lett, 4 | into ourselves. The time presses. There is no room for delay.
642 Lett, 2 | favors was an effect of my presumption, which pretended to be at
643 Lett, 2 | of my presumption, which pretended to be at once where others
644 Lett, 1 | great difficulty that I am prevailed on by your importunities.
645 Lett, 2 | means to moderate them and prevent their appearance to others.
646 Lett, 10 | of God, which must be the principal.~Pray remember that I have
647 Lett, 5 | exercise. Let us do it from a principle of love, and because God
648 Lett, Int| first letter was to the prioress of one of these convents.
649 Conv, 4 | the hours appointed for private prayer in thinking of God
650 Conv, 4 | all my affections." As he proceeded in his work, he continued
651 Conv, 4 | habit which will naturally produce its acts in us without our
652 Lett, 2 | consolation. This practice produced in me so high an esteem
653 Lett, 2 | time was in trouble, felt a profound inward peace, as if she
654 Conv, 3 | advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances
655 Conv, 1 | would oftentimes very much promote our spiritual advancement. ~
656 Lett, 13 | griefs, is that they are proof of God's love towards you.
657 Conv, 4 | and to this end do Thou prosper me with Thy assistance.
658 Lett, 3 | which God has sent him will prove a wholesome remedy to him
659 Conv, 2 | into Burgundy to buy the provision of wine for the community.
660 Pref | following year, in a second publication which he titled, 'The Practice
661 Pref | local archbishop, first published the letters in a small pamphlet.
662 Lett, 7 | be, without Him, a cruel punishment to us. May He be blessed
663 Conv, 2 | about it, nor about the purchase of the wine. He said to
664 Lett, 12 | that we suffer a little to purify our souls and oblige us
665 Conv, 1 | Lawrence said that if my purpose for the visit was to sincerely
666 Lett, 10 | the loss he has had and puts all his confidence in God,
667 Lett, 11 | which we often retard, by putting greater confidence in physic
668 Lett, 1 | this would serve rather to puzzle me, than facilitate what
669 Conv, 4 | upon Divine Grace. ~Being questioned by one of his own community (
670 Conv, 1 | Him. ~He said we ought to quicken and enliven our faith. It
671 Pref | for over forty years. His quiet death was much like his
672 Pref | nerve. The injury left him quite crippled and in chronic
673 Lett, 2 | of love for Him.~I have quitted all forms of devotion and
674 Conv, 2 | When I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying,
675 Lett, 6 | with Him. That is more than reasonable.~I do not say we must put
676 Conv, 2 | suffered much. ~Finally he reasoned: I did not engage in a religious
677 Conv, 4 | rather than by studied reasonings and elaborate meditations.
678 Conv, 2 | his actions, he had found reasons to be well satisfied with
679 Lett, 2 | infirmity, I am presently recalled by inward emotions so charming
680 Lett, 4 | presence, God presently recalls Himself by a stirring in
681 Lett, 9 | find the effects of it by receiving the abundance of His grace,
682 Lett, 5 | particular. I perceive that she reckons much upon them. Pray do
683 Conv, 4 | simplicity. We need only to recognize God intimately present with
684 Lett, 10 | Pray remember that I have recommended you think often of God,
685 Pref | Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire
686 Conv, 3 | difficulties we need only have recourse to Jesus Christ and beg
687 Lett, 11 | the effects of it in your recovery, which we often retard,
688 Lett, 4 | make way for grace. Let us redeem the lost time, for perhaps
689 Lett, 3 | always thought that He would reduce you to extremity. He will
690 Lett, 8 | want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection, at our
691 Conv, 2 | with God continually and referring all we do to Him, we must
692 Lett, 14 | grace of God, which He never refuses to them who ask it earnestly.
693 Pref | and presence; that anyone, regardless of age or circumstance,
694 Lett, 2 | Touched with a sensible regret I confess to Him all my
695 Conv, 2 | into them. He could never regulate his devotion by certain
696 Conv, 2 | appointed for prayer in rejecting wandering thoughts and falling
697 Lett, Int| native village, perhaps relatives. It is likely that the first
698 Lett, 15 | Him sufficiently for the relaxation He has vouchsafed you. I
699 Lett, 14 | Accordingly I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength
700 Lett, 14 | to our Lord, for having relieved you a little, according
701 Lett, 11 | be hell to me if I could relish them without Him. All my
702 Lett, 11 | sickness than in health. Rely upon no other Physician
703 Conv, 4 | a perfect confidence, as relying upon the infinite merits
704 Lett, 7 | affairs to M-- and spend the remainder of your life only in worshipping
705 Lett, 10 | must be the principal.~Pray remember that I have recommended
706 Lett, 1 | and the presence of God is rendered as it were natural to us.~
707 Lett, 4 | bottom of his soul that it renders him incapable of doubting
708 Lett, 1 | satisfaction I could for my sins, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything
709 Conv, 4 | all consists in one hearty renunciation of everything which we are
710 Lett, 9 | begin in earnest, let us repair the lost time, let us return
711 Lett, 3 | nothing is easier than to repeat often in the day these little
712 Lett, 1 | need. In fine, by often repeating these acts, they become
713 Lett, 2 | effect, while she is in this repose, she cannot be disturbed
714 Pref | collected. Joseph de Beaufort, representative and counsel to the local
715 Lett, 6 | Be not discouraged by the repugnance which you may find in it
716 Conv, 4 | severally the things his office required, and when and how each thing
717 Lett, 11 | other Physician because He reserves your cure to Himself. Put
718 Lett, 13 | leave off human remedies and resign yourself entirely to the
719 Conv, 4 | knowledge and love of God, resolving to use his utmost endeavor
720 Lett, 2 | ways, and treats me in all respects as His favorite. It is thus
721 Lett, 4 | words, reposes again, and rests in the depth and center
722 Conv, 2 | a spiritual state. As a result he feared nothing, desiring
723 Conv, 2 | had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love
724 Lett, 11 | recovery, which we often retard, by putting greater confidence
725 Lett, 7 | of our heart wherein we retire from time to time, to converse
726 Lett, 8 | or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate. Let it be your
727 Conv, 4 | things doubtful and for rightly performing those which we
728 Conv, 4 | it. "Thus," said he, "by rising after my falls, and by frequently
729 Conv, 2 | go about the boat but by rolling himself over the casks.
730 Lett, 4 | time presses. There is no room for delay. Our souls are
731 Lett, 2 | this time I fell often, and rose again presently. It seemed
732 Conv, Int| hundred pairs of sandals, was "rough in appearance but gentle
733 Lett, 8 | thoughts. Our mind is extremely roving. But as the will is mistress
734 Conv, 1 | of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused
735 Lett, 7 | confine yourself to certain rules or particular forms of devotion;
736 Lett, 5 | rest of your days in His sacred presence, deprived of all
737 Conv, 4 | but to please Him. ~Our sanctification did not depend upon changing
738 Pref | he became a cook and then sandalmaker for the community which
739 Conv, Int| over one hundred pairs of sandals, was "rough in appearance
740 Lett, 2 | faith alone was capable to satisfy me in that point. Such was
741 Conv, 2 | me, whether I be lost or saved, I will always continue
742 Conv, 1 | Conversation~The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon
743 Lett, 4 | ourselves with so little. God, says he, has infinite treasure
744 Lett, 12 | and so great that I can scarce contain them.~I would willingly
745 Pref | near fatal injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him
746 Conv, 3 | there needed neither art nor science for going to God, but only
747 Lett, 7 | if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain
748 Lett, 4 | He will quickly calm the sea.~I have taken the liberty
749 Lett, 4 | no longer in an anxious search after it. He now has it
750 Lett, 2 | an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul
751 Conv, 4 | surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive
752 Lett, 2 | about it, yet, for greater security, I shall be glad to know
753 Conv, 2 | ground for the love of God, seeking Him only, and nothing else,
754 Pref | available to anyone who seeks to know God's peace and
755 Lett, 1 | that you would let it be seen, all the desire that I have
756 Lett, 2 | will, however, oblige me in sending me your opinion, to which
757 Lett, 11 | can cure them. He often sends diseases of the body to
758 Lett, 8 | God. Let us set about it seriously and pray for one another.~
759 Lett, 7 | prayers, and that I am their servant, and yours particularly.~
760 Lett, 2 | makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives
761 Lett, 2 | grace, which begins with servile fear, which is increased
762 Lett, 9 | employed them in loving and serving God, who by His mercy has
763 Lett, 7 | Seventh Letter~I pity you much.
764 | several
765 Conv, 4 | having first considered severally the things his office required,
766 Pref | first ten years were full of severe trials and challenges. ~
767 Lett, 12 | suffers and I, who deserve the severest discipline, feel joys so
768 Lett, 9 | very end? I am filled with shame and confusion, when I reflect
769 Conv, 1 | conversing with Him. It was a shameful thing to quit His conversation
770 Conv, 2 | this. He found that the shortest way to go straight to God
771 Lett, 1 | upon the terms that you show my letter to nobody. If
772 Pref | spirit, Brother Lawrence shunned attention and the limelight,
773 Pref | walked with Our Father at his side. Yet, through his own words,
774 Lett, 5 | God, we would never lose sight of Him, no, not for a moment.~
775 Conv, 2 | greatest sinners as more signal monuments of His mercy. ~
776 Lett, 2 | speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation
777 Conv, 2 | God, could not efface a single sin. Instead, we ought,
778 Lett, 1 | has done to so miserable a sinner as I am.~May all things
779 Lett, 6 | Sixth Letter~I have received from
780 Lett, 7 | time to live. You are near sixty-four, and I am almost eighty.
781 Lett, 4 | Spirit go forward even in sleep. If the vessel of our soul
782 Conv, 1 | he would there be made to smart for his awkwardness and
783 Conv, 3 | reason why we see so little solid virtue. He said there needed
784 | something
785 Conv, 4 | that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he grew stronger. ~
786 Lett, 2 | wretched of men, full of sores and corruption, and who
787 Lett, 15 | that came from Him. The sorest afflictions never appear
788 Lett, 2 | and who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King.
789 Lett, 1 | than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing
790 Conv, 2 | the greatest simplicity, speaking to Him frankly and plainly,
791 Lett, 14 | hinder the wandering of our spirits from Him on all occasions.
792 Lett, 13 | Him to cure you. Since, in spite of all your cares, physic
793 Conv, 2 | said that useless thoughts spoil all -that the mischief began
794 Pref | that outside distraction "spoils all." It was not until after
795 Conv, 4 | Conversation~Brother Lawrence spoke with great openness of heart
796 Lett, 4 | it has found a passage, spreads itself with impetuosity
797 Lett, 2 | states had its different stages, by which one arrives at
798 Lett, 4 | delay. Our souls are at stake. I believe you have taken
799 Lett, 2 | love; that each of these states had its different stages,
800 Lett, 2 | whereof he is to make a statue. Presenting myself thus
801 Conv, 3 | Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular
802 Lett, 4 | presently recalls Himself by a stirring in his soul. This often
803 Lett, 2 | consider myself there, as a stone before a carver, whereof
804 Lett, 4 | which, after being forcibly stopped against its ordinary course,
805 Lett, 4 | still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord,
806 Conv, 2 | that the shortest way to go straight to God was by a continual
807 Conv, 4 | earnestly to others. More strikingly, his example was a stronger
808 Conv, 1 | winter, upon seeing a tree stripped of its leaves and considering
809 Lett, 12 | because faith gives me as strong a conviction as sense can
810 Conv, 4 | of faith, rather than by studied reasonings and elaborate
811 Conv, 4 | by devout sentiments and submission to the lights of faith,
812 Conv, 4 | ought, on the contrary, to submit ourselves to them and bear
813 Conv, 4 | great delight. ~The whole substance of religion was faith, hope,
814 Lett, 11 | you make use of, they will succeed only so far as He permits.
815 Lett, 3 | little lifting up the heart suffices. A little remembrance of
816 Conv, 2 | to the directions of his superior, but he did not want such
817 Conv, 4 | my knees at the Blessed Supper." ~
818 Lett, 1 | where, when we ask, He supplies the graces we need. In fine,
819 Conv, 4 | in God, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure
820 Lett, 2 | continues as if my spirit were suspended and firmly fixed in God
821 Pref | also the war in which he sustained a near fatal injury to his
822 Conv, 4 | arrive at our end and then be swallowed up by faith and charity.
823 Lett, 3 | though upon a march, and sword in hand, are prayers which,
824 | taking
825 Conv, 2 | This was a very unwelcome task for him because he had no
826 Lett, 11 | I see. I feel what faith teaches us, and, in that assurance
827 Lett, 2 | things, that I may not be tedious to you, yet I think it proper
828 Lett, 14 | make our heart a spiritual temple, wherein to adore Him incessantly.
829 Conv, 1 | with regard both to things temporal and spiritual and seek our
830 Conv, 4 | not wonder that troubles, temptations, oppositions, and contradictions
831 Lett, 13 | increases, it will not be tempting God to abandon yourself
832 Conv, 4 | mark to which they should tend, and in which they should
833 Lett, 10 | Tenth Letter~I have had a good
834 Conv, 4 | and in which they should terminate. ~He noted that in the beginning
835 Lett, 1 | importunities. I do it only upon the terms that you show my letter
836 Lett, 6 | an act of resignation, or thanksgiving, and in all manner which
837 | Thee
838 Lett, 3 | present my service, being theirs and yours. ~ ~
839 | therefore
840 Lett, 13 | Thirteenth Letter~I am in pain to see
841 Lett, 2 | entrance into religion, I took a resolution to give myself
842 Lett, 4 | vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let
843 Conv, 4 | trust in God, and make a total surrender of ourselves to
844 Lett, 2 | crimes against his King. Touched with a sensible regret I
845 Conv, 3 | soul and so inflamed and transported him that it was difficult
846 Conv, 1 | footman to M. Fieubert, the treasurer, and that he was a great
847 Lett, 2 | gives me the key of His treasures. He converses and delights
848 Lett, 5 | one of those books which treat of the presence of God;
849 Lett, 2 | and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His
850 Conv, 1 | that winter, upon seeing a tree stripped of its leaves and
851 Pref | years were full of severe trials and challenges. ~A gentle
852 Conv, 1 | irksomenesses in prayer by which God tries our love to Him; that then
853 Conv, 1 | men amused themselves with trivial devotions which changed
854 Conv, 1 | without any fear of being troublesome. If this was not the case,
855 Lett, 1 | difficulties that occurred, without troubling or disquieting myself when
856 Lett, 9 | saying the same thing. It is true, for this is the best and
857 Lett, 11 | pardon, torment me, though in truth that torment itself is pleasing.
858 Lett, 11 | do not comprehend these truths. Nor is it to be wondered
859 Lett, 6 | fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.
860 Lett, 12 | Twelfth Letter~If we were well accustomed
861 Lett, 5 | Letter~I received this day two books and a letter from
862 Lett, 11 | my eyes, as well as the uncertainty of my pardon, torment me,
863 Pref | then followed, a pure and uncomplicated way to walk continually
864 Lett, 14 | suffering will become full of unction and consolation.~I know
865 Conv, 2 | suffering. Yet he was not uneasy about it. Knowing that since
866 Lett, 2 | does me, all unworthy and ungrateful as I am. As for my set hours
867 Conv, 4 | its season with an even uninterrupted composure and tranquillity
868 Conv, 2 | they serve to arrive at the union with God by love. He had
869 Lett, 2 | to my mind, and the great unmerited favors which God did me,
870 Lett, 6 | as one often engages in unreasonably. Those devotions are only
871 Conv, 3 | and then, after a time, unspeakable pleasures followed. In difficulties
872 Lett, 13 | physic has so far proved unsuccessful and your malady still increases,
873 Conv, 2 | community. This was a very unwelcome task for him because he
874 Lett, 2 | favors which God does me, all unworthy and ungrateful as I am.
875 Conv, Int| was then in charge of the upkeep of over one hundred pairs
876 Conv, 4 | God, resolving to use his utmost endeavor to live in a continual
877 Conv, 3 | He would not forsake him utterly and that He would give him
878 Lett, 5 | pleases unless it be left vacant to Him. There is not in
879 Lett, 9 | besides is but folly and vanity. You and I have lived over
880 Lett, 4 | forward even in sleep. If the vessel of our soul is still tossed
881 Conv, 4 | trouble us and cause perpetual vicissitudes in our health, in our humors,
882 Conv, 2 | by love, without selfish views. Since he resolved to make
883 Lett, Int| who were from his native village, perhaps relatives. It is
884 Lett, 6 | not say we must put any violent constraint upon ourselves.
885 Conv, 4 | practice of these three virtues. The end we ought to propose
886 Conv, 2 | mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could
887 Lett, 1 | mercy, has been pleased to vouchsafe to me; I must tell you,
888 Lett, 15 | for the relaxation He has vouchsafed you. I hope to see Him within
889 Lett, 13 | providence of God. Perhaps He waits only for that resignation
890 Pref | forty years, he lived and walked with Our Father at his side.
891 Conv, 4 | found such an advantage in walking in the presence of God,
892 Lett, 8 | least to recall it from its wanderings. I have told you already
893 Lett, 8 | If your mind sometimes wanders, and withdraws itself from
894 Lett, 3 | gracious and knows all our wants. I always thought that He
895 Lett, 12 | your sufferings. I know my weakness, which is so great, that
896 Conv, 4 | deceive us. We ought not weary of doing little things for
897 | whoever
898 Lett, 3 | has sent him will prove a wholesome remedy to him and make him
899 Lett, 2 | I confess to Him all my wickedness. I ask His forgiveness.
900 Lett, 2 | other times that it was a willful delusion, and that there
901 Lett, 5 | firm resolution never more willfully to forget Him. Resolve to
902 Lett, 12 | scarce contain them.~I would willingly ask of God a part of your
903 Lett, 8 | draw us, even against our wills, to the things of the earth.
904 Lett, 4 | soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake
905 Conv, 1 | of eighteen. During that winter, upon seeing a tree stripped
906 Lett, 10 | which you have in God. I wish that He may increase it
907 Lett, 2 | not devoted to God as I wished to be, my past sins always
908 Lett, 8 | mind sometimes wanders, and withdraws itself from Him, do not
909 Lett, 11 | truths. Nor is it to be wondered at, since they suffer like
910 Conv, 1 | world, he was so far from wondering at them, that, on the contrary,
911 Lett, 10 | employment of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession.
912 Lett, 1 | my Father, as my God. I worshipped Him the oftenest that I
913 Conv, 4 | this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be,
914 Lett, 7 | remainder of your life only in worshipping God. He requires no great
915 Conv, 3 | Brother Lawrence said that the worst that could happen to him
916 Conv, 4 | then, would find ourselves worthy of all contempt and subject
917 Lett, 15 | when we see them in the wrong light. When we see them
918 Lett, 15 | shall soon see that change wrought in us which we aspire after. ~
919 Conv, 1 | notions of God which would yield us great joy in being devoted
920 Pref | in which he fought as a young soldier. It was also the
921 Lett, 3 | world and a great deal of youth. I hope the affliction which