#ect

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

— William Ames

#found #height #joy #love #neighbor

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

#duty #good #joined #known #least

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

#church #continual #direction #god #means

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#liberty #mafia #me #members #protects

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#harmony #heaven #music #our #perfection

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#disappeared #every #guardian #loving #object

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#elect #everywhere #exists #generation #rest

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ↗

— Martin Amis

#gives #moral #neutral #style

Only silence perfects silence. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#perfects #silence