William Ames Men Quotations

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

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.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

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