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When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich 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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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor. ↗

— 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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The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. ↗

— William Ames

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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. ↗

— William Ames

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