"Be intent on the perfection of the present…" — William Law
"Be intent on the perfection of the present day."
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23 Quotes by William Law
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you…
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and…
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God,…
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation…
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as…
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our…
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Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and…
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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
— Aristotle
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
— Julian Assange
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
— Paul Auster
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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