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- Herausgeber: Golden Quill Classics
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
🌿 Experience peace, joy, and divine connection in everyday life with one of the most beloved spiritual classics of all time. In The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence, a humble 17th-century monk, reveals the secret to living in continual awareness of God's presence. Through simple conversations and letters, he teaches that true spirituality is not found only in prayer or church, but in every act of daily life—whether cooking, cleaning, or working. ✨ His message is timeless: by turning our thoughts toward God in every moment, we discover freedom from worry, a deeper faith, and a life filled with love. 📖 Cherished by Christians for over 300 years, this short but profound work continues to inspire seekers of peace and intimacy with God. 👉 Draw closer to God today—click Buy Now and begin your journey into the presence that never leaves. 🙌💖
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence
Preface
SURELY if additional proof of its reality were needed, it might be found in the universal oneness of experimental Christianity in all ages and in all lands. The experiences of Thomas á Kempis, of Tauler and of Madame Guyon, of John Woolman and Hester Ann Rogers, how marvellously they agree, and how perfectly they harmonize! And Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine, whose letters and converse are here given, testifies to the same truth! In communion with Rome, a lay brother among the Carmelites, for several years a soldier, in an irreligious age, amid a sceptical people, yet in him the practice of the presence of GOD was as much a reality as the “watch” of the early Friends, and the “holy seed” in him and others was the “stock” (Isa 6:14) from which grew the household and evangelistic piety of the eighteenth century, of Epworth and of Moorfields.
“When unadorned, adorned the most” is the line which deters from any interpolations or interpretations other than the few “contents” headings which are given. May the “Christ in you” be the “hope of glory” to all who read.
First Conversation
Conversion and previous employment. * Satisfaction in God’s presence. * Faith our duty. * Resignation the fruit of watchfulness.
THE first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the 3rd of August, 1666. He told me that GOD had done him a singular favour, in his conversion at the age of eighteen.
That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.
That he had been footman to M. Fieubert, the treasurer, and that he was a great awkward fellow who broke everything.
That he had desired to be received into a monastery, thinking that he would there be made to smart for his awkwardness and the faults he should commit, and so he should sacrifice to GOD his life, with its pleasures: but that GOD had disappointed him, he having met with nothing but satisfaction in that state.
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
