William Ames Quotes

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
William Ames

Faith, God, May

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.
William Ames

Nature, God, Everyone

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
William Ames

End, Longing, Believers

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames

Love, Faith, Religion

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames

Love, Joy, Found

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
William Ames

God, Nothing, Matter

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames

Change, God, Real

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
William Ames

Nature, Father, Same

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
William Ames

Nature, Good, Perfect

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames

God, Word, Hearing

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
William Ames

God, Live, Blessings

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
William Ames

God, Tell, Attributes

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

God, May, Either

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
William Ames

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
William Ames

Fitness, Perfection, Either

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames

Corruption, Point, Sin

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.
William Ames

God, Before, Nor

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
William Ames

God, Single, Him

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

Present, Nor, Existence

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
William Ames

God, Far, Personal

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
William Ames

Makes, Action, Creation

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
William Ames

God, Soul, Same

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
William Ames

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 agrees with the divine nature.
William Ames

Nature, God, Perfect

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.
William Ames

Special, Sometimes, Here

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: 1576

Died: November 14, 1633

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