Sunday, July 27, 2008

Quote: The Virtue of Rising Early

Hmmm. Maybe I should set that alarm a little earlier :)

If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of
self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means
of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer,
you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though
it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all
probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it
constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be
avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It
would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you
able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that
war against the soul.

William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, ch. XIV [1728]

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