“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”

— Brother Lawrence , book The Practice of the Presence of God

Variant: Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

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French Christian monk 1614–1691

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