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Now the Spirit of Love has this Original. God, as considered in himself in his Holy Being, before any thing is brought forth by him or out of him, is only an eternal Will to all Goodness.

— William Law The Spirit of Love (1752)

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We have no spiritual need except for a restoration of the divine nature in us.

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You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough.

It is much more possible for the Sun to give forth Darkness, than for God to do, or be, or give forth anything but Blessing and Goodness.

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God could not make the creature to be great and glorious in itself; this is as impossible, as for God to create beings into a state of independence on himself.

An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)

All possible goodness that either can be named, or is nameless, was in God from all eternity, and must to all eternity be inseparable from him; it can be nowhere but where God is.

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