"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly……" — William Ames
"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 and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
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30 Quotes by William Ames
William Ames has 30 quotes on this site.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain…
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Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on…
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses…
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that…
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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent…
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An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only…
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
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I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death,…
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