Author: 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.

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

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

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

- 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

- William Law

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

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