The Spiritual Maxims of Brother Lawrence

Brother Lawrence

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t THE SPIRITUAL MAXIMS OF BROTHER LAWRENCE

THE SPIRITUAL MAXIMS OF BROTHER LAWRENCE

‘All things are possible to him who believes, they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are easier to him who /oves, and still more easy to him who practises and perseveres in these three virtues.” —BrRoTHER LAWRENCE.

1. We must study ever to regard Gop and His Glory in all that we do, and say, and undertake. This is the end that we should set before ourselves, to offer to GoD a sacrifice of perfect worship in this life, as we hope to do through all eternity... We ought firmly to resolve to overcome, with the grace of Gop assisting us, the many difficulties which will meet us in the spiritual life.

2. When we enter upon the spiritual life, we ought to consider thoroughly what we are, probing to the very depth. We shall find that we are altogether deserving of contempt, unworthy of the name of Christ, prone to all manner of maladies and subject to countless infirmities, which distress us and impair the soul’s health, rendering us wavering and unstable in our humours and dispositions; in fact, creatures whom it is Gop’s will to chasten and make humble by numberless afflictions and adversities, as well within as without.

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