William Law , English divine, was born at Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire.
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“Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.”
William Law
“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 exact modesty of dress.”
“What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?”
“Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?”
“Piety requires us to renounce no ways of life where we can act reasonably, and offers what we do to the glory of God.”
“A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.”
“God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.”
“The essences of our soul were a breath in God before they became a living soul, they lived in God before they lived in the created soul, and therefore the soul is a partaker of the eternity of God and can never cease to be.”
“It's never going to get too much. You need it. You have to buy it.”