William Law
Selected pages from the book Wholly for God: the True Christian Life.

In the greatest truth, and highest reality, every stirring of the soul, every tendency of the heart towards God and goodness, is justly and necessarily ascribed to the Holy Spirit, or the grace of God. It is because this first Seed of life, which is sown into the soul, as the gift or grace of God to fallen man, is itself the Light and Spirit of God; and therefore every stirring or opening of this Seed of Life, every awakened thought or desire that arises from it, must be called the moving, or the quickening of the Spirit of God.

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