Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties. Brother Lawrence
A true philosopher must never give up.
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Jostein Gaarder
Never, never, never give in!
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Winston S. Churchill
Being alive is sign of strength!
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Hiro Mashima
I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
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John Dryden
First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.
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Heinrich Heine
More Quotes By Brother Lawrence
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...
I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness to Him, ask His pardon and abandon myself entirely...
He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present,...
The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith or unbelief - that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our Father is full of love for us and that He...
When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us, even against our wills, to the things of the earth....
