"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
DeathView Quote
"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
posted in Happiness
Other Quotes by William Law
Discover more inspiring quotes by William Law
"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
NatureView Quote
"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
WisdomView Quote
"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
GodView Quote
"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
FaithView Quote
"No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress."
-William Law
EducationView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
HappinessView Quote
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway
HappinessView Quote
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus
HappinessView Quote
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
HappinessView Quote
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama
HappinessView Quote
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
HappinessView Quote