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William Law Quotes

1686–1761 England

William Law (1686 – 9 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, King George I. Previously, William Law had given his allegiance to the House of Stuart and is sometimes considered a second-generation non-juror.

England
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There is nothing noble in a clergyman but burning zeal for the salvation of souls.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Law (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.