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Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of

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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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things. – 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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Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. – Ellen G. White

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire

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I believe that todays players who are Christians feel that its important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith. – Lynn Swann

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God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond mans power to conceive. – Ayn Rand

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