William Law Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”