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.
From William Law
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
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.
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.
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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