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Christian Quotes by William Law
- He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
- If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
- We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
- Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
- Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
- What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
- 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…
- 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…
- Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
- 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…
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