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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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