 | Cotton Mather - New England - 1855 - 680 pages
...provocations he would scorn to be provoked. When the Lord would not express himself unto Elijah in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still voice, I suspect, lest one thing intended among others, might be an admonition unto the prophet himself,... | |
 | Cotton Mather - New England - 1855 - 676 pages
...provocations he would scorn to be provoked. When the Lord would not express himself unto Elijah in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still voice, I suspect, lest one thing intended among others, might be an admonition unto the prophet himself,... | |
 | Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1856 - 386 pages
...true wisdom, who seek it only, or even chiefly, in the scene of public ordinances. Tie Lord was not in the strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire ; but in the still small voice. (1 Kings xix. 11, 12.) The wisdom which he imparts is practical and engaging. It softens the character,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 502 pages
...hail, nor the f tue whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice. Thev are but the blunt and the low SECT. III. CHAT. I. faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed... | |
 | William Walters - 1857 - 428 pages
...illustration : the Lord was not in the strong wind that rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire ; but in the still small voice. Grace is only heard in its results. The descent of the dew is sometimes plentiful. Especially is this... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - Occasional sermons - 1858 - 542 pages
...They still need the reproof with which the prophet was visited, to admonish them that the Lord is not in the strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but that, after all these have passed by to prepare His way before Him, He then comes in the still small... | |
 | Sylvester Graham - Food in the Bible - 1859 - 360 pages
...It is not in " the great and strong wind which rends the mountains and breaks in pieces the rocks ; nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still small voice " of truth, that the moral potency of God resides ! 78. In the exercise of his natural power, God does... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake nor in the fire, but in the still small voice. They are but the blunt and the low faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed through lampblack... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...nor the drift, of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still small voice. They are but the blunt and low faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed through lampblack... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Theology - 1860 - 504 pages
...Psalmist, he comes flying upon the wings of the wind ; and only to the higher prophet is he not in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in " the still small voice." Not the same thoughts, very far from the same thoughts, pass through the minds of the more and the... | |
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... it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake nor in the fire, but in... 
