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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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“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.”

People Men Would Be Eye Lasts Science Night Fall Imagination Sleep Brain Study Tree Drink Highest Silly Kingdoms Glorious Necks Climbing Extravagant Ascent

Author:William Law

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

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

“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.”

Men World Way Life Spirit Names Given Common Glory Devotion Gods Will Sole Devoted Serving God Piety Common Life

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

“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

“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.”

Thinking Knows Men Littles Christian Religion Prayer Praying Perseverance Stranger Devotion Frequency Constancy Nature Of Man Hasty

Book:A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

Source: A practical treatise upon Christian perfection

“As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.”

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Book:The Power of the Spirit

Source: The Power of the Spirit

“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

“All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin, this alone redeems and renews.”

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Book:I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus

Source: I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus

“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

“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