| Mary Jane Graham - 1834 - 152 דפים
...incomprehensible. Imagination would grasp at the idea ; — but it is too mighty for her. We can but express it by another incommensurable distance — " surely...thoughts higher than our thoughts, and His ways than our ways."1 Poor, pitiful, narrow-minded creatures that we are ! If God does but give to one of our fellow-creatures... | |
| 1858 - 806 דפים
...learn how to die yourselves that you may live with him. But who will teach us this ? ' As the heaven is higher than the earth, so are God's thoughts higher than our thoughts.' Who will go up to bring him down from above ? Truly we need no one. The Spirit has come down to teach... | |
| Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 דפים
...His own distinguishing attribute that to many makes that manifestation incredible ; " as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are God's thoughts higher than our thoughts, and His ways than our ways;" and it is just because they are, that little presumptuous man pronounces them incredible. If the Divine... | |
| Robert A. Purdon - 1868 - 516 דפים
...abdicated his viceroyalty, and was unworthy to be put into commission again. " But, as the heaven's are higher than the earth, so are God's thoughts higher than our thoughts " (Isaiah lv.). Therefore, wonderful to say, the very fall of man became the origin of his infinite... | |
| Charles Wadsworth - 1869 - 388 דפים
...of scholarship to its false place of criticism, in forgetfulness of the truth, that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are God's thoughts higher than our thoughts, and his ways than our ways. We do not say that man should not reason about Divine truth, whether natural or revealed. On the contrary,... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1884 - 1122 דפים
...ideas and prejudices of our own, and so corrupt its Divine simplicity : we forget that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are God's thoughts higher than our thoughts, and vainly dream that our feeble minds can grasp the Infinite idea. How little have we learned even yet... | |
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