Quotes of William Law - somelinesforyou

“ Prayer is the nearest approach to God. ”

- William Law

“ You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. ”

- William Law

“ Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. ”

- William Law

“ 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

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

- William Law

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

- William Law

“ No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. ”

- William Law

“ 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

“ If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift. ”

- William Law

“ Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you. ”

- William Law

“ Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers. ”

- William Law

“ The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God. ”

- William Law

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

- William Law

“ If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift. ”

- William Law

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

- William Law

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

- William Law

“ All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature. ”

- William Law

“ 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

“ 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

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

- William Law

“ 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

“ All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature. ”

- William Law

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

- William Law

“ All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature. ”

- William Law

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

- William Law

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

- William Law

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

- William Law

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

- William Law

“ Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love. ”

- William Law

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

- William Law
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