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In communion with rome, a lay brother among the carmelites, for several years a soldier, in an irreligious age, amid a skeptical 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. Buy the practice of the presence of god by lawrence, brother isbn. Brother lawrence simply and beautifully explains how to. These, the conversations now entitled the practice of the presence of god and 16 letters represent lawrence s full teaching.
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