William Ames

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

— William Ames

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

— William Ames

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

— William Ames

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the…

— William Ames

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

— William Ames

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not…

— William Ames

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of…

— William Ames

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from…

— William Ames

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

— William Ames

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is…

— William Ames

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is…

— William Ames

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual…

— William Ames

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all…

— William Ames

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

— William Ames

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and…

— William Ames

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were,…

— William Ames

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning…

— William Ames

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

— William Ames

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned;…

— William Ames

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which…

— William Ames

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

— William Ames

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to…

— William Ames

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

— William Ames

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

— William Ames

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be…

— William Ames