Creation Quote by William Ames Download Open image “The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.” — William Ames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creation Efficiency May Productivity Providence Understood
God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Although “providence” literally means “to foresee,” as applied theologically to God it refers more broadly to God’s active loving care for, beneficial actions on… — Bruce R. Reichenbach Copy Share Image
“We may define God’s providence as follows: God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing… — Voddie Baucham Jr Copy Share Image
The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do,… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
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… — William Ames Copy Share Image
The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“whenever God is pleased to make way for his providence, he even in external matters so turns and bends the wills of men, that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets… — William Ames Copy Share Image
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. — William Ames Copy Share Image
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because… — William Ames Copy Share Image
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. — William Ames Copy Share Image
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. — William Ames Copy Share Image
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be… — William Ames Copy Share Image
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised… — William Ames Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I believe if there is a creator it will basically ask me two questions, how well did you enjoy my creation and what did… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
