 | Mrs. Waller - 1865 - 112 pages
...truth, ' that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty." Now-a-days, Maude,... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1866 - 104 pages
...resist the mighty in. fluences of the Spirit of God, when " he goeth forth where he listeth." "God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise : and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty." The truth of this... | |
 | William Carr Thurman - Bible - 1867 - 364 pages
...sealed up which the Church has been reading for more than two thousand years. To this we reply : " God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise." (1 Cor. i. 27.) We will now examine the second proposition, which is this . At the time of the end... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 438 pages
...— Christ separated St. John from his bride. He is immoral — so was St. Boniface. He is a fool — God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He is a coward — St. Joseph was a coward. He is a glutton and a wine-bibber — so Christ was said... | |
 | Wolcott Calkins - Businessmen - 1867 - 262 pages
...poetry nor music in these songs," he used to say; "but what of that? the Holy Spirit is in them, and God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise." He never could bear to be asked whether he liked the manner of any zealous brother who was doing good.... | |
 | 1869 - 326 pages
...the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised,... | |
 | Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.) - 1869 - 228 pages
...so ; can you ? " No, sir," replied Stephen, with courage. E " He tells us in the Bible, laddie, He has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, and he has chosen the poor of the world to be heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to them that... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1869 - 802 pages
...how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called ; but God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise ; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty ; and base things... | |
 | Evangelistic work - 1869 - 380 pages
...recital of which the Colouel repeated, " Bnt God has chosen the foolish things of the world to coufound the wise ; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to coufound the things which are mighty." " That is very trne," said the humble couvert. " Yes, quite... | |
 | Anna Shipton - Christian life - 1870 - 232 pages
...showeth lovingkindness, ' that I have been led to sing a new song of the i — ,. triumphs of grace. " God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty." LITTLE JOHNNIE was born at Charlton Kings, July 24th, 1862. His mother was a laundress, living next... | |
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But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty... 
