The Practice of the Presence of God: Being Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence
Book Description
An excellent way to be living our lives to believe and act as if we are in the Presence of God at all times, which we truly are for God is everywhere. Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, this is sure to inspire you and hopefully help you practice of being in the Presence of God.
Excerpt: Although death has carried off last year
many of the Order of the Carmelites
Dechausses br...
MoreAn excellent way to be living our lives to believe and act as if we are in the Presence of God at all times, which we truly are for God is everywhere. Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, this is sure to inspire you and hopefully help you practice of being in the Presence of God.
Excerpt: Although death has carried off last year
many of the Order of the Carmelites
Dechausses brethren who have left in dying
rare legacies of lives of virtue, Providence, it
would seem, has desired that the eyes of men
should be cast chiefly on Brother Lawrence,
and has made his death the occasion of
showing forth the merit of this holy man, who
all his life had studied to avoid the gaze of
men, and whose saintliness is only fully seen
now that he is dead.
Several persons having seen a copy of one
of his letters, have desired to see more; and
to meet this wish, care has been taken to
collect as many as possible of those which
Brother Lawrence wrote with his own hand.
These letters are so edifying, so rich in
unction, and have been found so full of delight
by those who have had the joy of reading
them, that the first readers have desired not
to be alone in profiting by them. It is at
their wish that the letters have been printed, for
they judge that these writings will prove very
useful to souls who are pressing forward to
perfection by the Practice of the Presence of
GOD.
All Christians will find herein much that is
edifying. Those in the thick of the great
world will learn from these letters how greatly
they deceive themselves, seeking for peace
and joy in the false glitter of the things that
are seen, yet temporal: those who are seeking
the Highest Good will gain from this book
strength to persevere in the practice of
virtue. All, whatever their life-work, will find
profit, for they will sec herein a brother,
busied as they are in outward affairs, who in
the midst of the most exacting occupations,
has learnt so well to accord action with con-
templation, that for the space of more than
forty years he hardly ever turned from the
Presence of GOD.
Publisher | St Athanasius Press |
Binding | Kindle Edition (101 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B002CJMG6S |
Publication Date | 06/08/2009 |
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