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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law
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William Law
Age: 75 †
Born: 1686
Born: January 1
Died: 1761
Died: April 9
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King's Cliffe
Northamptonshire
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If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
William Law
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law
All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin, this alone redeems and renews.
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Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
William Law
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.
William Law
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.
William Law
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
William Law
Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.
William Law
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
William Law
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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Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.
William Law
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.
William Law
Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.
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All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.
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Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
William Law
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
William Law
He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!
William Law
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
William Law
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law
