William Law

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ↗

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

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

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

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

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

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Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. ↗

— William Law

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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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