| L. F. March Phillips - 1883 - 450 Seiten
...are, but it necessarily follows from the fact of God's perfect knowledge, wisdom and love, that "His ways are not as " our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." Here perhaps I ought to name another objection of Mill's. He says the use of means is inconsistent... | |
| 434 Seiten
...and so she could only pray for him ; and now acknowledges with thankfulness and praise that ' God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts ;' but if ' He will work, who shall hinder it ? ' " After T 's death the quilt was returned to Nurse,... | |
| Angeline M. Cudworth - 1884 - 406 Seiten
...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... | |
| Eliza Paul Gurney - 1884 - 410 Seiten
...void, but shall prosper in that whereto He sends it." Thomas Evans to EPG Tenth mo. 16th, 1862. . . . The Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as ours. He works by means which to human apprehension seem foolish and despicable, but being of His ordering,... | |
| William Connor Magee (abp. of York.) - 1884 - 344 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Eliza Paul Gurney - 1884 - 404 Seiten
...void, but shall prosper in that whereto He sends it." Thomas Evans to EPG Tenth mo. 1 6th, 1862. . . . The Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as ours. He works by means which to human apprehension seem foolish and despicable, but being of His ordering,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1885 - 522 Seiten
...And if you ask me, how can this come to pass, I must answer, as Isaiah does in this same chapter : " The Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts, but higher than ours, as the heavens are above the earth." But if we do turn to God, and repent each... | |
| A L O. Sanders - 1887 - 330 Seiten
...we have found a way out of our perplexities, when in very deed we are only about to find that God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts! At the first, when our suspicions about Grace and Ned were fully confirmed, I understood from Maggie... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...our Father, and to His God and our God ; and that whatsoever be the answer vouchsafed by Him whose ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts, the prayer will not have gone up to Christ in vain. Westminsfer Sermons. I have been praying long and... | |
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