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1. "God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy." ~ William Law
2. "Grant that I may worship and pray unto Thee with as much reverence and godly fear, as if I saw the heavens open and all the angels that stand around Thy throne. Amen." ~ William Law
3. "Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world? It is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives most alms or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice; but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God's goodness and has a heart always ready to praise God for it. Could you therefore work miracles, you could not do more for yourself than by this thankful spirit, for it turns all that it touches into happiness." ~ William Law
4. "If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it." ~ William Law
5. "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." ~ William Law
6. "God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue." ~ William Law
7. "This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God." ~ William Law
8. "Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like." ~ William Law
9. "Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory." ~ William Law
10. "Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state." ~ William Law
11. "What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?" ~ William Law
12. "Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light." ~ William Law
13. "What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?" ~ William Law
14. "Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares." ~ William Law
15. "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
16. "He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life." ~ William Law
17. "Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love." ~ William Law
18. "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead." ~ William Law
19. "We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another." ~ William Law
20. "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
21. "Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God." ~ William Law
22. "Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God." ~ William Law

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