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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. – William Ames

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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

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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

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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 what he gives to us. – William Ames

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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. – Cat Stevens

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The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. – E. Stanley Jones

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