William Ames Quotes

Time was God's first creation.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.