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
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
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not… — William Law Copy Share Image
If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in… — William Law Copy Share Image
If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he… — 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… — 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
We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own… — William Law Copy Share Image
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy… — William Law Copy Share Image
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. — 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
