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 More Quotes by William Law More Quotes From William Law We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it. William Law keysgodreality Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers. William Law judgingprayerchristian Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. William Law religiouschristianlove What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? William Law stupidreligiouschristian Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life. William Law enjoymentresurrection The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. William Law eyereligiouschristian Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. William Law religiouschristianthinking They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance. William Law perseveranceprayerchristian Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. William Law lightreligiouschristian All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin, this alone redeems and renews. William Law christianmenjesus The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him. William Law angelmenheaven 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 creationexcellencejudging If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world. William Law doctrinemenbelieve Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. William Law religiouschristiantime Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes . William Law wratheyemen If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else. William Law affectionchristianworld Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman. William Law virtuous-womanwifefound The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband. William Law wifehusbandgiving Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?. William Law meritscripturecharity 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 religiousperfectionchristian
