William Law Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

  William Law

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.266

• From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  William Law (1836). “Extracts from The spirit of prayer”, p.13

• We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

  William Law

  Heart, People, May

• 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

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

• You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (2001). “The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works”, p.125, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (1749). “I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus”, p.47

• Now if you will stop here and ask yourself 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

  Christian, Heart, Ignorance

  William Law (2011). “A Serious Call to A Devout”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  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.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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