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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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“Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”

Ifs Heart Christian Asks Ignorance Primitive Inability Pious

Book:A Serious Call to A Devout

Source: A Serious Call to A Devout

“Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.”

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

“If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.”

Ifs May Soul Matter Christian Religious Behinds One Thing Praying Becoming Leaving Envy Awakening Jealous

Author:William Law

“If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.”

People Ifs Men World Important Sports Forget Dying Standing Another World People Who Are Dying

Author:William Law

“If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.”

Ifs Way Happens Perfection Praise Thankfulness Praise God

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author

“If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.”

Ifs Love Soul Body Enemy Support Divine Praying Degrees Universal Forgiving Charity Neighbor Command Reserves Divine Life

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

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

Ifs Men Different Self Christian Religious Deny

Author:William Law

“If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.”

Ifs World Self Christian Life Is Spirit Courses Religious Poverty Our Lives Humility Affection Denial Heavenly Renunciation Self-denial World Poverty

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

“This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.”

Ifs Men States Light Enjoy Acting Divine Creatures Glory Angel Shining Glory Of God Gift From God Receiver Divine Power Divine Wisdom

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians by the Late ... ; to which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author

“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

“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.

“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

“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