William Law Quotes

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

Christian life consists of faith and charity

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.