William Ames Quotes
- Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
- The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to…
- The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
- Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present…
- Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
- The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
- Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would…
- For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the…
- The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which…
- The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.