"The will of God is eternal because He……" — William Ames
"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 willed before."
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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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