Logo
Quote by William Ames
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to G

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

Other quotes by William Ames

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. – William Ames

Category:
Faith
Author
William Ames
Read Quote

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

Category:
Religion
Author
William Ames
Read Quote

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

Category:
Faith
Author
William Ames
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Faith
category

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Faith

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because theres a lot of rejection throughout an actors life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else. – Stephen Collins

Category:
Faith

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself. – Alberta Hunter

Category:
Faith

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Category:
Faith

Random Quotes

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Category:
Attitude

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass players brothers bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool. – Nate Ruess

Category:
cool

I guess Im a bit of a romantic. – Felicity Jones

Category:
Romantic

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Authors & Writing