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• Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

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  Practice, Temptation, Mind

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• Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Time

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.110

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• 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.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.145, Paulist Press

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• Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Wife, Virtuous Woman, Found

  Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co

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

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  Christian, Religious, Moving

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.8

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• 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.

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  Angel, Men, Heaven

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.47, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Reading

  William Law (1802). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend”, p.27

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• 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

  Believe, Men, Doctrine

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

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  Christian, Religious, Light

  William Law (2001). “The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7”, p.62, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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

  Christian, Prayer, Judging

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.77

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• 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.

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  God, Reality, Keys

  William Law (1836). “Extracts from The spirit of prayer”, p.2

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• 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.

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  Judging, Excellence, Creation

  William Law (1974). “The works”

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• Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

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  Charity, Scripture, Merit

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.68, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.

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  Silly, Fall, Sleep

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• 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

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  William Law (1749). “I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus”, p.24

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• If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.

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  Love, Support, Soul

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

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  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.

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  Christian, Religious, Vanity

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.263, Paulist Press

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• 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

  Eye, Men, Wrath

  "Art and the Message of the Church". Book by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120, 1961.

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• 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

  Christian, World, Affection

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.7

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• 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.

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  Husband, Giving, Wife

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• My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

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  Daughter, Liars, Men

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