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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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“They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.”

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Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

“We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.”

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Book:Extracts from The spirit of prayer

Source: Extracts from The spirit of prayer

“We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.”

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Author:William Law

“He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.”

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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

“Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.”

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Book:Selections from the Works of ... W. Law, making a guide to rest, in belief of the Gospel, and in obedience to the Divine Law

Source: Selections from the Works of ... W. Law, making a guide to rest, in belief of the Gospel, and in obedience to the Divine Law

“This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God.”

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Book:The Spirit of Prayer : Or, the Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the Riches of Eternity

Source: The Spirit of Prayer : Or, the Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the Riches of Eternity

“All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.”

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