

“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God

“That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God

“That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God

“I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God

“That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God
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