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.
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Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.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
A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.
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
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
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
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