97 Quotes by William Law

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

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.

Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.

Piety requires us to renounce no ways of life where we can act reasonably, and offers what we do to the glory of God.

You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.

It's never going to get too much. You need it. You have to buy it.