Author: 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.

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

- William Law

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

- 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

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

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