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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 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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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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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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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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There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. ↗

— Lord Amherst

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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks. ↗

— Scott Speedman

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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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