“If there be nothing so glorious as doing good, if there is nothing that makes us so like God, then nothing can be so glorious in the use of our money, as to use it in all works of love and goodness, making ourselves friends, fathers, benefactors, to all our fellow-creatures, imitating the divine love, and turning all our power into acts of generosity, care, and kindness, to such as are in need of it.”
William Law (1686-1761) in A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (Newcastle: Barker, 1845) 51.
While I pray the quotes I share daily ignite the fires of generosity in your life, you must know that William Law was one of the formative influences in the life of John Wesley. Law wrote A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life in 1728 and it remains for us today as one of the contributing works that helped birth the revival movement in Wesley’s England. May all who revisit this classic be equally inspired today!