William Law , English divine, was born at Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire.
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“Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.”
William Law
“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”
“Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.”
“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”
“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 he is engaged with another happiness.”
“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new - created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessi”
“Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.”
“We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.”
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”
“Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.”