William Ames
Related JOHN DONNE Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in... KENNETH S. KANTZER JOHN CALVIN THEODORE ROOSEVELT You have not yet given us the information necessary for the evaluation of your proposal. This is not... HENRY REICHARD W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the ch... SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON ALICE WALKER JIM BAKKER It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on... BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the church's response ... CARL R. SMITH ALICE WALKER Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the myste... THOMAS À KEMPIS BLAISE PASCAL BILLY GRAHAM Those before them rejected (prophets), therefore there came to them the chastisement from whence the... QURAN KEVIN DEYOUNG OSCAR A. ROMERO ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH CHARLES HODGE Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recog... SEAN BRADY This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was r... MARTIN CHEMNITZ But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God tho... WILLIAM AMES CRAIG GROESCHEL in an age of information overload . . . the last thing any of us needs is more information about God... RACHEL HELD EVANS W. H. AUDEN JOHN CALVIN [Continued from yesterday] 4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous ... CHARLES G. FINNEY May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care ... SEAN BRADY DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS And if We please, We should certainly take away that which We have revealed to you, then you would n... QURAN Nobody and nothing can influence to my faith.
For me faith is a permanent staying with God and in Go... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them: for this... BIBLE THOMAS PAINE W. H. AUDEN GORDON B. HINCKLEY a church that is a church only on Sunday and at other formal gatherings of the congregation is not o... ROD DREHER IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED! NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i... NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste... NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you... NOT SURE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CHARLES M. SCHULZ O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, thoug... GEORGE WHITEFIELD A. W. TOZER CHARLES M. SCHULZ The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet m... JANE GREY ROBERT SARAH If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not wh... ROBERT JEFFRESS SUNDAY ADELAJA For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its st... TIM KEEL The Church has a vision of wholeness and holiness for the human person, and everything the Church do... MATTHEW KELLY This coherence of the Bible itself, and of the Bible and the Church, is a coherence and a unity set ... E. C. HOSKYNS If somebody can do this to a church, then God help them. CINDY JOLLEY The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materia... MICHAEL FLYNN SAINT AUGUSTINE AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO SUNDAY ADELAJA C.S. LEWIS With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The ... FRANCIS ARINZE C. JOYBELL C. These incidents did not occur on any church property and did not occur during any church-related act... CHRIS RICHEY If [it] yields to the drift of the age and surrenders its hold of the awful but glorious individuali... WILLIAM RUSSELL MALTBY MARTIN LUTHER LEO ROSTEN The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfec... BRIAN D. MCLAREN EMIL BRUNNER What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? / For if Abr... BIBLE DALLAS WILLARD CHRISTOPHER PIKE We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves... JACOB REITAN JOHANN ARNDT As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I fe... ANDRES SERRANO MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY MATTHEW HENRY It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to t... MATHEW HENRY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW STACIA KANE Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for ... JAMES MACDONALD Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those... OWEN BRANDON WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART THOMAS à KEMPIS A. W. TOZER You just need a bus if you're going to have activities. Then, you can do things off church property.... KAREN PAQUIN FRANCIS ATTERBURY ANONYMOUS OSCAR A. ROMERO Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. WILLIAM GURNALL If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very bes... GENE ROBINSON Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ... DAVID L. EDWARDS ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact ... PIUS XII PACELLI Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 The task is not, in essence, the securi... G. T. MANLEY ABRAHAM LINCOLN LISA KLEYPAS DIETRICH BONHOEFFER NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI FULTON J. SHEEN BART D. EHRMAN Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 Here [in the Gospel... REGINALD FULLER
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In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is th... WILLIAM AMES Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to som... WILLIAM AMES Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God. WILLIAM AMES Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by ... WILLIAM AMES From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act whic... WILLIAM AMES For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will ... WILLIAM AMES Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may ... WILLIAM AMES Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and ... WILLIAM AMES But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God tho... WILLIAM AMES An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only... WILLIAM AMES Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and la... WILLIAM AMES Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object a... WILLIAM AMES The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease ... WILLIAM AMES This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. WILLIAM AMES Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image... WILLIAM AMES The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. WILLIAM AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any wort... ALDRICH AMES I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more... ALDRICH AMES I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming in... ALDRICH AMES Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the... ALDRICH AMES Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to ... ALDRICH AMES Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that yo... ALDRICH AMES Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ALDRICH AMES By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of... ALDRICH AMES Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified i... ALDRICH AMES An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a mach... ALDRICH AMES Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's... JONATHAN AMES I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort... JONATHAN AMES In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a... ALDRICH AMES We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to com... BRETT AMES We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as ... BRETT AMES The last four games we had great practices. For four weeks we concentrated on defensive intensity an... BRETT AMES We had to get that (championship). It feels good. The first half I couldn't miss a shot. When you ma... BRETT AMES We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous. A lot of those idea... GARY AMES We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous, ... A lot of those ... GARY AMES One of the advantages to the new plant was that we've promoted people and moved them down there for ... GARY AMES A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their drivew... GARY AMES I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write. JONATHAN AMES I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a rela... JOHN AMES Well, it's the farm's pickup, JOHN AMES It was a tragedy, ... I wish it had never happened. JOHN AMES Everything happened so fast, ... There were no conscious thoughts. JOHN AMES We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional. JOHN AMES I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do tha... JONATHAN AMES I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersââÂ... JONATHAN AMES (S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. JONATHAN AMES By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'... JONATHAN AMES FISHER AMES FISHER AMES I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some ki... JONATHAN AMES We worked on a few things that we've been working on from the British Open onwards with the swing, .... STEPHEN AMES Except for the 10th hole, I played a flawless round. It felt like a walk in the park. STEPHEN AMES Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not... ALDRICH AMES Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of... JONATHAN AMES I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and... JONATHAN AMES You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his h... ALDRICH AMES I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I w... JONATHAN AMES It was only a five-iron. It wasn't a three-iron or two-iron. I hit the shot exactly how I pictured i... STEPHEN AMES I'm going have a different approach to Augusta now. I'm going to be looking forward to see ? with my... STEPHEN AMES I played well. I was very comfortable with my setup, how I was hitting it, and it was just a matter ... STEPHEN AMES I was heartbroken when I found out. JENNI AMES The greens are actually firmer than the fairways. STEPHEN AMES My beauty doesn’t lie between my thighs. TRACY AMES I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existe... JONATHAN AMES You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at ... STEPHEN AMES My kids are on spring break and this was scheduled as a two-week vacation. The Masters, obviously, w... STEPHEN AMES Sixth hole, Tiger's up by the green waiting. I told him, 'Sorry it took so long, but I was 120 yards... STEPHEN AMES I think I did that this week, put myself in another gear. It was a matter of seeing the shot and hit... STEPHEN AMES Around the greens, it's horrendous as far as I'm concerned. I think the fairway rough is fair. But t... STEPHEN AMES Around the greens, it's horrendous as far as I'm concerned, ... I think the fairway rough is fair. B... STEPHEN AMES It almost feels like we've been kicked back to a secondary event unfortunately. I wish Tim would loo... STEPHEN AMES This is probably three, maybe four shots tougher than Hamilton. STEPHEN AMES When you live in Calgary and take 10 weeks off from golf, you're just trying to get back to basics. STEPHEN AMES I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few... JONATHAN AMES The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. ALDRICH AMES The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known... ALDRICH AMES I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to ... JONATHAN AMES My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some peopl... ALDRICH AMES I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people... ALDRICH AMES It's crazy how much people want to know about this, ... I've been on radio shows all day. I could bu... FRANK AMES I don't know why it grows like that; it just always has, FRANK AMES It's crazy how much people want to know about this, FRANK AMES Years lost in early life are irrecoverable, particularly in cricket. LES AMES The best murder stories are often soufflés: light, delicately flavored and sometimes threatening to... KATRINE AMES C" is for colonies MRS. ERNEST AMES Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience ca... PETER AMES CARLIN The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, a... PETER AMES CARLIN Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game. LOUISE BATES AMES my stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure HEIDI L. AMES Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world. , NASA AMES DRYDEN Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost,
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, ... MARY CLEMMER (MARY CLEMMER AMES) To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
"Written in water," swiftly fades thy name;
But he who... MARY CLEMMER (MARY CLEMMER AMES) The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. MARY CLEMMER (MARY CLEMMER AMES) A shining isle in a stormy sea,
We seek it ever with smiles and sighs;
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To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation... 
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"; for faith consi... 
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, o... 
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is ... 
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s... 
You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says th... 
Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin... 
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church ar... 
As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are... 
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of t... 
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... 
All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells... 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... 
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtfu... 
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the ... 
Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black... 
Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church c... 
I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of o... 
But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ... 
For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out 
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. 
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. 
God gave us the church to arm us with help and strength 
But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to ... 
I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... 
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and th... 
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and th... 
Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Utopias of historical progress cannot sedu... 
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims... 
Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ... 
True Christianity consists only in pure faith, love, and an holy life; which holiness of life spring... 
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast
themselves most of their being near to ... 
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to t... 
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neithe... 
A promise to the Church is far more important than any other promise. Not just because the Church pr... 
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the chur... 
It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on prob... 
Hearts that are "fit to break" with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and... 
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ... 
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the... 
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ... 
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed ... 
Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
In the Christian community thankfulness is just what it is anywhere else in the Christian life. Only... 
A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the ... 
He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ... 
Why would God have inspired the words of the Bible if he chose not to preserve these words for poste... 
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant ... 
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. 
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produ... 
Time moves in one direction, memory in another. 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec... 
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. 
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha... 
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. 
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny. 
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ... 
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel... 
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast... 
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! 
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. 
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n... 
All love is lost but upon God alone. 
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p... 
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. 
God himself took this human flesh upon him. 
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C... 
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl... 
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? 
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort... 
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. 
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. 
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey. 
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. 
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. 
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most... 
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. 
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. 
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. 
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe... 