William Ames Quotes
The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
Quotes to Explore
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.
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Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
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Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
