| 1849 - 884 páginas
...Scripture for the comfort of the poor ; and many the promises given to them by the Almighty, whose thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways — when they turn unto Him to seek His face and favour. "The poor have the Gospel preached unto them... | |
| Richard William Dickinson - 1850 - 322 páginas
...sceptic must acknowledge, in reference to nature's God, as we reverently say of the God of the Bible, " his thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways." Sometimes mere want of attention, inadvertence, or thoughtless neglect, is followed by the most serious... | |
| John Brown - 1850 - 620 páginas
...creature's most enlarged power of comprehension. Here — here more than any where else — " God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways ; but as the heaven is higher than the earth, so are his thoughts than our thoughts, and his ways than our... | |
| Horatio Hastings Weld - 1850 - 282 páginas
...marked as much by wisdom, as by power and mercy. He gratified no vain and wonder-seekiiig crowds. God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways. " It is written again, Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God." These words are taken from the sixth... | |
| 1850 - 452 páginas
...his seed, the great number of his children would have made a prominent part of his history. But God's thoughts are not as our thoughts-;, nor his ways as our ways. Though now possessed of the bulk of his father's property, confirmed by God as the sole and undisputed... | |
| Eleazar Lord - 1851 - 332 páginas
...mere presumptuous conjecture ? No ; " ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." " His thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways." The mysteries of his works are as far above our conceptions as the mysteries of his nature. So far... | |
| Adalbert Stifter - 1851 - 320 páginas
...may be found wanting, He, the Searcher of hearts, will * judge more mercifully than man judgeth, for His thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our wavs. THE END. LONDON : Printed by SAMUEL BENTLIT & Co., Bangor House, Shoe Lane. i \j 1 1 ... | |
| John Hutton Balfour - 1851 - 272 páginas
...the gifts of God, whose Spirit alone can enable us to see light clearly, and to exclaim, The Lord's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts... | |
| Hollis Read - 1852 - 424 páginas
...multitude of the colored race in America to go forth and bless -the dark continent of Africa. God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways. The south possesses the grand lever for raising Africa. "Let the foot of it be placed at Liberia; let... | |
| William Connor Magee (abp. of York.) - 1852 - 268 páginas
...and material conceptions of God ; to think of him as altogether such an one as ourselves, forgetting that " his thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways,"* but high above them, even as the heavens are higher than the earth. * Isaiah Iv. 8. Now it is clear that... | |
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