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If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

Brother Lawrence
Pain, Differences, Pleasure
Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

Brother Lawrence
Pain, Sweet Love, Joy
Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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.

Brother Lawrence
Pain, Long, Bears
Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

Brother Lawrence
Pain, Desire, Employment
Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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