William Law famous quotes

04-17-2025

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
-- William Law

#Christian #Prayer #Happy Life
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
-- William Law

#Christian #Prayer #Heart
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
-- William Law

#Summer #Perfection #Today
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Differences
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Mean
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.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Strong
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

#Christian #Religious #Soul
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.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Believe
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Time
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Light
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Self
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

#Christian #Religious #Stupid
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.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Perfection
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.
-- William Law

#Christian #Religious #Humble

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