William Law Quotes

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

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.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

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.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

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