Quotes from 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.
- William Law
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
- William Law
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.
- William Law
He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!
- William Law
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
- William Law
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.
- 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.
- William Law
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
- William Law
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- William Law
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
- William Law
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
- William Law
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
- William Law