...intimate attachment ; all which it were highly improper in us to affect towards the Supreme Being, "whose "ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. I am afraid that the application of Love in a strict sense, and sometimes in too fervent and passionate...

...Q our request he retired again, 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 not indeed as our thoughts: I should have supposed that I should...

...auflicicnt; and that even divine justice could not have withheld any favour from such an intercessor. Even this would have appeared a noble expedient, worthy of the benevolence of Goo ; and a sufficient reatan why he should receive into his favour the beings who were united to Him,...

...would be taught in Sabbath Schools, to fear the Lord and reverence his holy name? "Verily, the Lord's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." Although much has been done, much remains yet to do. There are many children in Pittsburg and the vicinity,...

...drawing false- conclusions when we argue from our own opinions of the conduct of Providence : For His s c , tX ^Z:oϓ C > :Q ? 6 r o ~ But tho'j'rh we arc- forced to acknowledge that the gospel according to Matthew which we possess is...

...say : is this true doctrine ? Yes : all Scripture testifies it. God's love is thus wonderful. ".His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." "His love is free, our works cannot buy it. I repeat again the last sweet call of the Bible ; " whosoever...

...wise, is most certain ; but he does not conduct himself on the principles of mere human wisdom. " His " ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts " as our thoughts." It is not always in man to perceive the fitness of those means which God makes use of to obtain his...

...best measures, o 3 and frequently obstructs, by his inexpedient rashness, the success of his projects. But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. He avails himself of his attribute of omniscience to proportion his revelations to the infirmities...

...acknowledge as true Christians, those whom she now treats as enthusiastic and dangerous sectarians But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Your Decree of the 15th of January, and. your Circular Letters of the 16th and 17th, which I yesterday...

...David he might say, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn Thy statutes." God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. His counsels are of old faithfulness and truth ; His judgments are a mighty deep. But Elisha had a...