William Law Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.

  William Law

  Silly, Fall, Sleep

• The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Eye

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.200, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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 .

  William Law

  Eye, Men, Wrath

  "Art and the Message of the Church". Book by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120, 1961.

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