English - Clergyman | 1686 - April 9, 1761
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
William Law
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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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Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
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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.
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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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.
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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.
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