William Ames Quotes

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.