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Attributed quotes — William Law

1686–1761 England

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Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light, which infinitely flows forth from God, as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes.

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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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