William Law

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.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

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

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

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.

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.

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.