William Law Quotes
English cleric and theological writer.
(1686 - 1761)
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
[Life]
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
[Bodies]
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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He that is endeavouring to subdue, and root out of his mind,all those passions of pride,envy and ambition,which religion opposes, is doing more to make himself happy, even in this life than he that is contriving means to indulge them.
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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
[Prayer]
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
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Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
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Man needs to be saved from his own wisdom as much as from his own righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption.
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
[God]
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Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.
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Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
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The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
[Forgiveness]
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