English - Clergyman | 1686 - April 9, 1761
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law
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Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
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What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
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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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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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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.
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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.
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
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