William Law
William Law
William Lawwas a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I. Previously William Law had given his allegiance to the House of Stuart and is sometimes considered a second-generation non-juror. Thereafter, Law first continued as a simple priestand when that too became impossible without the required oath, Law taught privately, as well as wrote extensively...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
became breath cease created eternity god lived living soul therefore
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.
love support soul
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.
christian religious soul
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
jealous envy soul
If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.
eye soul closing
The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.
love soul wish
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
soul bud half
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.
according delight indeed love spirit state temper till works
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.
god hath rather separated separation
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
cares forms goes governs hopes ours religion till
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.
act glory life offers piety renounce requires ways
Piety requires us to renounce no ways of life where we can act reasonably, and offers what we do to the glory of God.
buy
It's never going to get too much. You need it. You have to buy it.
daughter liars men
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.