| Donald Fraser - 1831 - 656 páginas
...faith, and cause the believer to say, ' Can such a thing be ?' But, O it is true, it is true : His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; but as the heavens are high above the earth, so are his ways above ours, and his thoughts above ours.... | |
| 1831 - 334 páginas
...rich a blessing. Alas! we poor shortsighted mortals thought he could not be spared so soon. But 'God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.' 'How mysterious are his ways, and his judgments past finding out.' Brother and sister Jones arrived... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 páginas
...are not altogether hidden from our view. It is indeed emphatically said of the Most High, that " His ways are not as our ways, " nor His thoughts as our thoughts," that " His judgments are unsearchable, and His " ways past finding out;" that His " path is " in the... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 páginas
...no shade. He who has the times and the seasons in his own power can reveal them as he pleases ; his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; and he with whom a thousand years is as one day, and one day as a thousand • Gibbon's Hist. pp. 417—... | |
| Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 páginas
...attack ; and had flattered myself with the hope of life being protracted to a distant period. But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After purifying our dear friend in the furnace of affliction, he judged it fit to cut short his work... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 páginas
...after the commission of such crimes as cannot be contemplated without horror and amazement. But " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." The conduct of David as portrayed in our text, together with the means used by Nathan to humble him... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 páginas
...revealed, it is not for men to dogmatize about the mode or the means of its accomplishment ; for God's-ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, and his purposes may be wrought out in a manner that we wot not. In1 submitting these pages to the Christian... | |
| Henry Addington Simcoe - 1832 - 306 páginas
...he might read to his wife OB a Sunday evening. All now seemed about to go on happily ; but " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." He who chooses his people in the furnace of affliction, was about to put faith to the severest trial.... | |
| Jacques Samuel Pons, Richard Cattermole - 1832 - 342 páginas
...false step — a breath — a nothing, may close without warning, if such be the will of Him, " whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ?" Oh, if to the eye of Wisdom, every thing which must come to an end, howsoever remote, is fleeting... | |
| Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 páginas
...attack; and had flattered myself with the hope of life being protracted to a distant period. But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After purifying our dear friend in the furnace of affliction, he judged it fit to cut short his work... | |
| |