 | Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 300 pagina’s
...which these respective characteristics might find scope for their most effective exercise. But "his ways are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts." In less than twelve months, two of these were in their graves ; called thus early from the service... | |
 | 1854 - 874 pagina’s
...shadow of death I In all this we are practically taught that the ways of Him with whom we have to do, are not " as our ways," nor are " his thoughts as our thoughts ;" that all agencies, and instrumentalities are alike to him to work therewith, according to the good... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1855 - 370 pagina’s
...vengeance had already begun to seize him, and that full execution would quickly have been done. But God's ways are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts. Isa. Iv. 8. Christ laid him almost as low as hell, that he might raise him as high as the third heaven... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1855 - 408 pagina’s
...from their lips, nor one heart-felt expression of sorrow for their crime. Yet, wondrous mercy, God's ways are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts. It is ordinarily the method of his grace, to arrest the subjects of it in their greatest obduracy,... | |
 | Abiel Silver - 1863 - 300 pagina’s
...and Immutability — He who is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever — how could He repent ? His ways are not as our ways, nor are His thoughts as our thoughts. It is an apparent truth that God repents and grieves ; those emotions can be felt only by man ; and... | |
 | One week - 1865 - 44 pagina’s
...hand ! He tries our faith, to test our sincerity, and to stir us up to more importunate prayer. " His ways are not as our ways, nor are His thoughts as our thoughts." "He D knows our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking." " He will withhold no good... | |
 | Favell Lee Mortimer - 1869 - 488 pagina’s
...were cast down, and wondered why the Lord had not blessed the labours of his servants. But the Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts. He chose to try the faith and patience of the missionaries, and to permit them to plant and water long... | |
 | Lewis Tappan - 1870 - 456 pagina’s
...in a letter to his brother dated — , ENO., 9mo. 17, 1842. MY DEAR FRIEND : . . . . The ways of God are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts. In his fatherly corrections he often sees meet to try us most closely upon thoso points which we think... | |
 | 1871 - 446 pagina’s
...Cor. iii. 5 ; Phil. ii. 12, 13 ; Heb. ii. 4, xiii. 20, 21, etc.) But be it remembered " that God's ways are not as our ways, nor are His thoughts as our thoughts." Such matters are too high for us. It is not, I think, assuming too much to say that we know none of... | |
 | William Niven - 1873 - 206 pagina’s
...unto the furtherance of the gospel. This was a strange way- of furthering the Gospel ; but the Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor- are His thoughts as our thoughts. He can and He does make the wrath of man to praise Him, and He did so in this instance. The fact that... | |
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Saul, that divine vengeance had already begun to seize him, and that full execution would quickly have been done. But " God's ways are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts. 
