Saturday, June 5, 1999
Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754
This creaturely natural life [as opposed to life in union with God] is only a life of various appetites, hungers, and wants, and cannot possibly be anything else. God Himself cannot make a creature to be in itself, or in its own nature, anything else but a state of emptiness... The highest life therefore, that is natural and creaturely, can go no higher than this; it can only be a bare capacity for goodness and happiness, and cannot possibly be a good and happy life, but by the life of God dwelling in, and in union with it. And this is the two-fold life, that of all necessity must be united in every good and perfect and happy creature.
... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Love [1752-4], in Works of Rev. William Law, v. VIII, London: G. Moreton, 1893, p. 43 
(see the book; see also John 6:51; more at Emptiness, God, Goodness, Happiness, Life, Nature, Providence, Unity)
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