The classic that has taught millions how to live in continual fellowship with God — now rebuilt for modern listeners, fully expanded, and enriched with modern vernacular, in-depth history, and context.

Practicing the Presence of God is one of the most enduring Christian guides to spiritual intimacy. Brother Lawrence, a humble Carmelite lay brother in 17th-century Paris, learned to experience God not through visions or ecstatic prayer, but by remaining with God in the ordinary moments of daily life. His words became a guide for believers seeking peace, stillness, and confidence in God’s love.

This Reader’s Edition restores Brother Lawrence’s complete mystical corpus with clarity and accuracy:

• All fourteen Spiritual Letters revealing how Lawrence prayed through suffering, illness, grief, and spiritual dryness

• The full set of Conversations (Entretiens) including material rarely printed in English, showing Lawrence’s spoken guidance on union with God

• The complete Spiritual Maximsa practical handbook on prayer, faith, surrender, indifference, mortification, Providence, and pure love

• clean, lightly modernized language faithful to the original French yet immediately listenable for today’s Christian.

• A devotional and scholarly introduction explaining the history of the manuscripts, the Carmelite context, and how this work shaped Western spirituality

Whether you are new to contemplative Christianity or returning to this classic after many years, this edition offers the clearest, most complete, and most spiritually usable form of Brother Lawrence available today.

Live with God.

Work with God.

Suffer with God.

Rest in God.

That is the practice of His presence.