#god

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. ↗

— William Ames

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I really am pretty happy with what God gave me. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. ↗

— William Ames

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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. ↗

— 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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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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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

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The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is. ↗

— William Ames

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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. ↗

— 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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