 | Olinthus Gregory - 1833 - 384 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... | |
 | Nancy Towle - 1833 - 294 pages
...stubborn hearts were melted; and many entreated my stay. But still the word to me, was "Go.". "The LORD'S ways are not as our ways; nor His thoughts as our thoughts." It pleased Him, very signally to bless me at St. Joha's; and I trust, to make me a blessing, to not... | |
 | Henry Hunt PIPER - 1833 - 516 pages
...impossibility of the creature rising in goodness to compare with the Creator. We know in many respects his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. But this destroys not the obligation, nor should it deaden our holy ambition. The highest authority... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1839 - 402 pages
...Father who sees and knows all things, and orders them according to his infinite wisdom and mercy. His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. There is a reward promised to those who make the widow's heart rejoice. I often feel myself as a lonely widow;... | |
 | 1834 - 684 pages
...their station, and at the latter end of that week had made every preparation for starting; but God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts ! Mr. Welsh was taken ill on Saturday morning', with a violent dysentery. The medical gentleman who... | |
 | Alonzo King - 1834 - 338 pages
...no good whatever here in Burmah, I ought to submit and be still under the recollection, that God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, and that he giveth no account of his matters. But I trust God has made me of some service to a few... | |
 | Theodore Percival Wilson - 1882 - 282 pages
...Mrs. Vernon ; " and we may see an illustration here of two specially precious texts : ' The Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ;' and, ' All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.'... | |
 | Joseph Augustus Seiss - 1882 - 478 pages
...not preserve the Church an unblighted garden, a home of unruffled love. We can only answer, that His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. The truth is, that God's universe throughout is a very different realm from what man's wisdom would... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1882 - 700 pages
...(Preface, p. xxi.) To what must this principle lead? If that which God hath said be true — that " His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts," our thoughts must be contrary to His. Consequently, if we persist in adhering to our own thoughts,... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1882 - 392 pages
...demonstrate its credentials : magna est veritas et prcevalebit ? The answer is the same as of old ; God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. It is to ths dignity of a willing allegiance that He invites His creatures : He will not drag them... | |
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