William Law Professions : Writer Born : 1686 Died : April 9, 1761 Browse All Authors Top 74 quotes by William Law He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. William Law prayer christian happy-life We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. William Law prayer christian heart 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 differences religious christian If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world. William Law sports men people Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom. William Law corruption men needs From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus. William Law religious christian jesus As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will. William Law business christian life If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. William Law thankfulness perfection way 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. William Law light air sweet You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God. William Law religious christian thinking The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it. William Law merit charity kindness This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God. William Law religious christian spring God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy. William Law gratitude thanksgiving appreciation Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us. William Law choices religious christian 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 religious christian believe 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 thankful-to-god religious christian Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. William Law religious self christian What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? William Law religious christian men 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. William Law strong religious christian Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount. William Law religious blessed christian Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
