 | Baptists - 1831 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...darkness no shade. He who has the times and the seasons in his own power can reveal them as he pleases ; his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ; and he with whom a thousand years is as one day, and one day as a thousand years, reckons not of... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...repentance, after the commission of such crimes as cannot be contemplated without horror and amazement. But " His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." The conduct of David as portrayed in our text, together with the means used by Nathan to humble him... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1832 - 306 pages
...he might read to his wife OB a Sunday evening. All now seemed about to go on happily ; but " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." He who chooses his people in the furnace of affliction, was about to put faith to the severest trial.... | |
 | Jacques Samuel Pons, Richard Cattermole - 1832 - 342 pages
...false step — a breath — a nothing, may close without warning, if such be the will of Him, " whose ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts ?" Oh, if to the eye of Wisdom, every thing which must come to an end, howsoever remote, is fleeting... | |
 | Bible - 434 pages
...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, and... | |
 | Bible - 808 pages
...that my prayers were answered. I do not like death-bed repentance, but the Lord has taught me that " His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thought^.'' I have had many whom I dare not doubt are saved, who have been brought to seek Jesus while... | |
 | Ashton Oxenden (bp. of Montreal.) - God (Christianity) - 1884 - 140 pages
...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,... | |
 | Angeline M. Cudworth - 1884 - 406 pages
...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... | |
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that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts... 
