Quote by William Law
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a per

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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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. – William Law

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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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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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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? – Chuck Palahniuk

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I dont think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. – Dan Savage

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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Inside every adult theres still a child that lingers. Were happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children. – Guy Laliberte

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