If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
—William Law
Topics: Heaven
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
—William Law
Topics: Prayer
Every good thought that we have, and every good action that we perform, lays us open to pride, and thus exposes us to the various assaults of vanity and self-satisfaction.
—William Law
Topics: Pride
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
—William Law
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings
Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
—William Law
Topics: Time Management, Time, Perfection
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
—William Law
Topics: God, Faith, Divinity
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
—William Law
Topics: Forgiveness, Prayer
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
—William Law
Topics: Love
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.
—William Law
Topics: Nature
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.
—William Law
Topics: Love
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of good- ness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
—William Law
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