What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man…

William Law
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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? ✨ 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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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. ✨ William Law (1734). A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 e … ▶
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. ✨ William Law (1740). An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the fo … ▶
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. ✨ William Law (2001). The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7, p.62, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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 (1726) … ▶

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 (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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