...meridian of life was reached. How is that to be avoided ? By calling to remembrance the fact that God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts, and by reposing in Him the trust we have been forced by the inexorable logic of facts, to withdraw from...

...There are things beyond reason, and there are things contrary to reason. We may believe that " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts," without believing that with Him justice and love are capable of acts which are not merely inexplicable,...

...eternal. The one must express the other, as the countenance is the image of the soul within. If God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, it is surely a mistaken piety that continues to assert they are, and refuses to study the divine character...

...would the advent of the Deliverer have been chronicled as " wrapped in swaddling clothes." But God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts ; and there were unfathomable depths of design in the plan that the great Deliverer should have even a very...

...intoxicating drinks. All this seemed unfavorable to the revival of pure and undefiled religion. But 'God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.' " In the midst of this conflict our first communion for the year came. During the week preceding the...

...importance are passed over in a verse or single sentence. It is another evidence of the assertion : God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. The chapter referred to gives a beautiful description of the simplicity of manners prevalent in that...

...for no servant of God or leader in. Israel could possibly learn the mind of God without it. "God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore, the wisdom of man, unaided by immediate revelation, cannot perform acceptably before God...

...and irreverence of the implication that we are fitter than HE to occupy the universal throne ! If his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, certainly they must be more glorious, not less. Therefore let the individual, if himself destined to...

...their work, and not of the tools by «•Inch the work should be done. The great doctrine that "His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." is seen by the way in which He sets His carpenters to work, as well as in the work which He gives them...

...go forth into the world, and in my old age leave the home of my youth. But I do not repine ; God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts.' Then he rose, put his hand on my mother's shoulder, and, giving one look round, bowed his head and...