"The efficiency of God may be understood as……" — William Ames

"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."

— William Ames

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30 Quotes by William Ames

William Ames has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain…
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on…
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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…
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that…
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent…
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 Creation Quotes

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann
It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone… — Michele Bachmann
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is… — Alain Badiou
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of… — Ansel Adams
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then… — Gary Bauer
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic… — Bob Beauprez
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But,… — Bob Beauprez

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