 | 1831 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pages
...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 pages
...darkness 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 years, reckons not of... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...repentance, 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... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1832 - 306 pages
...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.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...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 - 834 pages
...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... | |
 | Jacques Samuel Pons, Richard Cattermole - 1832 - 342 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 678 pages
...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... | |
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... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. 
