...first attack; and had flattered myself with the hope of life being protracted to a distant period. But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts. After purifying our dear friend in the furnace of affliction, he judged it fit to cut short his work...

...to go down to the grave by leisurely decay? To questions such as these there can be but one reply: GOD'S ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. How little do we know, even of our own minds! We are "a mystery to ourselves !" " We know not what...

...of that city was called Luz at the first.* ON whatever side we look, we see abundant evidence that " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts." With us, there are laws of equity prescribed for the regulation of our conduct in the whole of our...

...is revealed, it is not for men to dogmatize about the mode or the means of its accomplishment ; for God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts, and his purposes may be wrought out in a manner that we wot not. In submitting these pages to the Christian...

...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 • Gibbon's Hist. pp....

...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...

...are, but it necessarily follows from the fact of God's perfect knowledge, wisdom and love, that "His ways are not as " our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." Here perhaps I ought to name another objection of Mill's. He says the use of means is inconsistent...

...reckless, 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...

...instance, that we cannot argue from the analogy of human forgiveness to the Divine forgiveness, because God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. That may be true in some respects, but it is not true as regards this. It never can be true when God...

...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,...