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God Quotes by William Ames
- Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
- Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved…
- From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between…
- This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
- Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as…
- The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
- An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it…
- Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
- Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
- In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees…
- Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.
- The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He…
- The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
- The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
- 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
- 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…
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