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You are therefore to consider yourself as a being that has no other business in the world, but to be that which God requires you to be; to have no tempers, no rules of your own, to seek no self-designs or self-ends, but to fill some place, and act some part, in strict conformity and thankful resignation to the Divine pleasure.
To think that you are your own, or at your own disposal, is as absurd as to think that you created and can preserve yourself. It is as plain and necessary a first principle, to believe that you are thus God’s, that you thus belong to Him, and are to act and suffer all in a thankful resignation to His pleasure, as to believe that in Him you “live, and move, and have your being."
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life - William Law
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