31 ordspråk av William Law
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. |
| Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. |
| 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. |
| Piety requires us to renounce no ways of life where we can act reasonably, and offers what we do to the glory of God. |
| Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new - created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessi |
| 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. |
| Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. |
| The essences of our soul were a breath in God before they became a living soul, they lived in God before they lived in the created soul, and therefore the soul is a partaker of the eternity of God and can never cease to be. |
| This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. |
| We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. |
| What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? |
| What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? |
| Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity? |
| You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary. |
| 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. |
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