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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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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

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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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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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Its very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back. – Quentin Tarantino

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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. – Elihu Root

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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things. – George Papandreou

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I have always been the kid whos asked Why? In my faith, youre just supposed to have faith. But I was always like why? – Katy Perry

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Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. – Ludwig Quidde

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