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William Law quotes: Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

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

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

William Law quotes: Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

William Law quotes: If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

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

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

William Law quotes: Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

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

William Law quotes: Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

William Law quotes: Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

William Law quotes: Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

William Law quotes: The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

William Law quotes: The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

William Law quotes: What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

William Law quotes: If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

William Law quotes: Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

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

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

William Law quotes: Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

William Law quotes: There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

William Law quotes: We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

William Law quotes: The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.

William Law quotes: If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.

If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.

William Law quotes: Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

William Law quotes: He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

William Law quotes: He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

William Law quotes: Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

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

William Law quotes: God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

William Law quotes: Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom