"Sanctification is not to be understood here as……" — William Ames
"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 in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
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30 Quotes by William Ames
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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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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
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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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More Consecration Quotes
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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all…
— Tertullian
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of…
— Oscar de la Renta
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When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your…
— Anthony Mary Claret
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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
— Watchman Nee
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Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass…
— Pope John Paul II
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The Lord Jesus himself proclaims, 'This is My Body.' Before the blessing of the heavenly words something of another character…
— Ambrose
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By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life.…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed…
— Saint Augustine
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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe.…
— Herman Melville
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