We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king.
Interpretation
Small acts done with love can lead to deep spiritual fulfillment.
This quote by Brother Lawrence emphasizes the importance of performing everyday tasks with love and devotion to God. It suggests that even mundane actions can be transformed into acts of worship when approached with the right intention, leading to a profound sense of happiness and fulfillment.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a church service to inspire others to serve with love.
In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.
I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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