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William Law Quotes
«Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.»
«If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.»
«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.»
«Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.»
«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.»
Author: William Law
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conformed, conforming, conforms, devotion, enjoyments, heavenly, holiness, piety, temper, turning, universal, worldly
«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.»
«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.»
«Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new - created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessi»
Author: William Law
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enjoyment, Great A, His Resurrection, New Gods, resurrection, resurrections, rising, Rising Sun, sentiments, The sense
«You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.»
Author: William Law
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body and soul, body of Christ, body of work, consult, dwelling, inquire, inquired, inquires, inquiring, Mary, Mary I, meekness, oracle, oracles, resignation, resignations, The Virgin, the Virgin Mary, Virgin, Virgin Mary