William Law Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Self

  William Law (2001). “An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Daughter, Liars, Men

• This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Spring

  William Law (1823). “The Spirit of Prayer : Or, the Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the Riches of Eternity”, p.44

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