 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 sider
...permit, but encourage, the execution of every good thought that could come into our minds. But " his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts :" he appoints unto men their work according to his sovereign will, and uses what instruments he pleases... | |
 | 1832 - 678 sider
...to go down to the grave by leisurely decay? To questions such as these there can be but one reply: GOD'S ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. How little do we know, even of our own minds! We are "a mystery to ourselves !" " We know not what... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 sider
...first 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... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 sider
...is 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. In submitting these pages to the Christian... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 sider
...of that city was called Luz at the first.* ON whatever side we look, we see abundant evidence that " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." With us, there are laws of equity prescribed for the regulation of our conduct in the whole of our... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 sider
...first 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... | |
 | Angeline M. Cudworth - 1884 - 406 sider
...unbelieving companions, with none of the neutralizing influences of home, his ruin seemed sure. But " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.'' The young man went on in transgression and insubordination until he was placed under arrest, and sent... | |
 | William Connor Magee (abp. of York.) - 1884 - 344 sider
...instance, that we cannot argue from the analogy of human forgiveness to the Divine forgiveness, because God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. That may be true in some respects, but it is not true as regards this. It never can be true when God... | |
 | Ashton Oxenden (bp. of Montreal.) - 1884 - 140 sider
...seems to have deserted the soul, when He is only going before it, and calling it to come after Him. His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. If they were, very few of us would ever reach heaven. For instance, 'as regards our earthly blessings,... | |
 | John Buchanan - 1885 - 274 sider
...conceive of God as treating them as they treat one another, and are entirely ignorant of the fact that " God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." There is something sublime in the thought of a whole community assembling together to endeavour to... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
