16 Quotes by William Law
- Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
- Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
- What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
- We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
- Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
- Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
- 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.
- 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.
- God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
- Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
- Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
- Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
- If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
- Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
- 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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