"What could begin to deny self, if there……" — William Law
"What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?"
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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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