If we are to live unto God at any time or in any place, we are to live unto him at all times and in all places

If anyone could show that we not always act as in the divine presence, that we need not consider and use everything as the gift of God, and that we need not always live by reason – the same arguments would show that we need never act as in the presence of God nor need we make religion and reason the measure of any of our actions. If, therefore, we are to live unto God at any time or in any place, we are to live unto him at all times and in all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as his gift. If we are to do anything by strict rules of reason, we are to do everything in the same manner.

They, therefore, who confine religion to times and places, and who think that it is being too strict and rigid to make religion give laws to all their actions and ways of living – they who think thus mistake the whole nature of religion. They may well be said to mistake the whole nature of wisdom who do not think it desirable to be always wise. He has not learned the nature of piety who thinks it too much to be pious in all his actions. – William Law