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William Law, an English writer, was born in 1686 and died on April 9, 1761. His works covered various fields such as philosophy, religion, and morality, and had a profound impact on later generations.

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“The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.”

Men Earth Heaven Angel Rational Obedience

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

“If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.”

Ifs Men World Feels Believe Shows Christianity Fundamentals Doctrine

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

“Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.”

Men Needs Produce Corruption Saved Righteousness

Book:The Power of the Spirit

Source: The Power of the Spirit

“Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .”

Men Doe Done Light Eye Darkness Hell Flow Angry Wrath

Author:William Law

“If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.”

Ifs World Whole Christian Courses Affection Heavenly Contempt Temper

Book: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.

Source: 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.

“Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.”

Found Wife My Wife Virtuous Seducing Polygamy Virtuous Woman

Book:William Law

Source: William Law

“The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.”

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Author:William Law

“My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.”

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Author:William Law

“Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.”

Today Summer Perfection Intention Clarity Present Day

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

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

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Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection ... The fifth edition

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection ... The fifth edition

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

Ifs Firsts Ends Christian Differences Religious Kingdoms Chosen Discipleship Kingdom Of God God First

Author:William Law

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

Way Heart Christian Religion Order Prayer Our Lives Impossible Praying One Way Intercession Answers To Prayer

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].

“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.”

People Ifs Believe Persons Christian Desire Religious Engaged Engagement Desire For God

Author:William Law

“Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.”

Soul Body Care Christian Life Is Religious Separation Christian Life Vain Temper Unnecessary Worldly Indulgence

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

“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.”

Real Christian Desire Strong Christ Religious Divine Essentials Notion Hunger Seeds Magnetic Divine Nature

Book:William Law: The Works

Source: William Law: The Works

“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.”

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

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

Christian Time Asks Religious Eternal Finite Duration Transitory

Book:An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

Source: An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

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

Light Christian Religious Hell Divine Beam Excluded Departed Divine Light Beams Of Light

Book:The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7

Source: The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7

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

Self States Christian Evil Religious Sin Tree Roots Fallen Branches

Book:An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9

Source: An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9

“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”

Men Christian Night Religious Brain Study Stupid Silly Flying Flight Airplane Predictions Extravagant Airplanes And Flying

Book: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.

Source: 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.

“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.”

Doe States Christian Religious Conditions Particular Duty Holy Perfection

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

“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.”

Christian Young Religious Industry Advantage Dresses Train Humble Modesty Young Women Plainness

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life