William Law , English divine, was born at Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire.
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“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”
William Law
“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 spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.”
“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”
“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.”
“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.”
“Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.”