William Law

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. ↗

— William Law

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

— William Law

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

— William Law

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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. ↗

— William Law

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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

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

— 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

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

— William Law

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