You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need… — William Law Copy Share Image
If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the… — William Law Copy Share Image
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us. — William Law Copy Share Image
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in… — William Law Copy Share Image
As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is… — William Law Copy Share Image
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor,… — William Law Copy Share Image
He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of… — William Law Copy Share Image
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy… — William Law Copy Share Image
You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your… — William Law Copy Share Image
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. — William Law Copy Share Image
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do… — William Law Copy Share Image
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God;… — William Law Copy Share Image
He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather! — William Law Copy Share Image
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes… — William Law Copy Share Image
Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper… — William Law Copy Share Image
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as… — William Law Copy Share Image
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good,… — William Law Copy Share Image
Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of… — William Law Copy Share Image
This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee,… — William Law Copy Share Image
When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all… — William Law Copy Share Image
The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will… — William Law Copy Share Image
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living,… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world? It is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not… — William Law Copy Share Image
Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption.… — William Law Copy Share Image
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. — William Law Copy Share Image
If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as… — William Law Copy Share Image
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? — William Law Copy Share Image
From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within… — William Law Copy Share Image
The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded… — William Law Copy Share Image
This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they… — William Law Copy Share Image
