June 13

If any man love the World, the love of the Father is not in him.

THE Sin of all Sins, or the Heresy of all Heresies, is a Worldly Spirit. We are apt to consider this Temper only as an Infirmity, or pardonable Failure; but it is indeed the great Apostasy from God and the Divine Life. It is not a Single Sin, but the whole Nature of all Sin. . . . Every Sin, be it of what kind it will, is only a Branch of the worldly Spirit that lives in us. "There is but one that is good," saith our Lord, "and that is God." In the same Strictness of Expression it must be said, there is but one Life that is good, and that is the Life of God and Heaven. Depart in the least Degree from the Goodness of God, and you depart into Evil; because nothing is good but His Goodness.

WILLIAM LAW

WORLDLINESS