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William Law

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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

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.

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.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

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?

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.

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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