#will

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

— William Ames

#all things #determining #divine #effectively #freely

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

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god

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

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #cigarettes #driving #immoral #other

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? ↗

— William Glasser

#competence #competent #get #grade #help

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#anyone #difficult #difficult time #energy #even

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#doing #i #participate #shall #will

Your body will tell you what it needs. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#needs #tell #will #you #your

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? ↗

— Kofi Annan

#chart #course #decades #does #first