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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bod

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. – William Law

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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. – William Law

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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. – William Law

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Happiness
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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. – William Law

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Birth was the death of him. – Samuel Beckett

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven. – Confucius

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It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace ones steps to the upper air – theres the rub, the task. – Virgil

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