| John Witherspoon - 1830 - 360 sidor
...How forcibly we are reminded of the Scripture declarations, concerning the divine mercy, that " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; but that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than our ways, and his... | |
| William BARBER (Wesleyan Missionary.) - 1830 - 552 sidor
...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... | |
| William Hales - 1830 - 1222 sidor
...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... | |
| 1832 - 448 sidor
...stagger faith, and cause the believer to say, 'Can such a thing be?' But, O it is true, it is true: Ilia ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; but as the heavens are high above the earth, so are his ways above ours, and his thoughts above ours.... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 542 sidor
...as 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... | |
| 1831 - 644 sidor
...it 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... | |
| Donald Fraser - 1831 - 656 sidor
...stagger 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 ; but as the heavens are high above the earth, so are his ways above ours, and his thoughts above ours.... | |
| 1831 - 334 sidor
...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... | |
| 1831 - 366 sidor
...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... | |
| Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 sidor
...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... | |
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