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 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

Category:
fitness
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
Other Quotes from
Faith
category

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. – Ernest Holmes

Category:
Faith

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Peter 3:15 – Bible

Category:
Faith

Its important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith – often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief. – Gary Bauer

Category:
Faith

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. – Tony Visconti

Category:
Faith

Random Quotes

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. – Milan Kundera

Category:
News

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. – James Allen

Category:
Beauty

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. – Jean de La Fontaine

Category:
Fear

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. – Neil Gaiman

Category:
Learning