...at our request he again retired, if possible, to rest. Lydia said to her,— "My dear, 'the Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts.' " " No !" she answered, " His thoughts are, indeed, not as our thoughts : I should have supposed that...

...certainty, that his judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out; and they are so, because, as the heavens are high above the earth, so are his ways higher 4 Matt. x. 29. than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts.6 In contemplating the divine...

...redemption ; they will as surely meet, in perfect concord, in that particular and awful close of it. God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, in such respects as this ; and he is verily all mighty. And this is a sufficient answer, and one that...

...days, BC 2093. Thus, by a singular and most unexpected and surprizing dispensation of Him, " whose ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts," was Saul " the blasphemer" of CHRIST, and "persecutor" of his saints, made the Jirst fruits of the...

...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 above ours. I rejoiced to think of the truth of it, that the great God is become man, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my friend, my elder...

...circumstances of the life, and apparently premature death of this individual, remind us, that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. But as he proposes a wise and righteous end in all his MYSTERY OF PROVIDENCE. <>f dealings with the children...

...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...

...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...

...any of the marks of human wisdom, we are naturally led to say, " Salvation belongeth unto God.— His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Therefore when conviction of sin makes us feel the necessity, and discovers the glory of our Saviour's...

...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...