"For the goodness of a living creature must be its own life; it must arise up in it as its own love or any passion doth; just as the fierceness of the tiger and the meekness of the lamb are the birth of their own life. And if goodness is not our natural birth from our natural parents, we must of all necessity be born again from a principle above nature, or no goodness can be living in us.… And from this birth alone it is, that the free genuine works of goodness flow forth with the freedom of the divine life, wherewith the Spirit of God has made us free."
~ William Law
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