...solution for the problem. By searching he cannot find out God, nor know the Almighty unto perfection; His ways are not as our ways nor His thoughts as our thoughts. And yet though mere reasoning from the premises might very well have led him to the conclusion of an...

...to the level of the finite ; and which seem to lose their force in proportion as we admit that God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts? The belief is strong enough without those fictitious supports ; it cannot be made stronger with them....

...benevolence, however, is not our kind of benevolence, its wisdom is not our kind of wisdom ; — " His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." A few months ago, I had — I was going to say the pleasure — I had the instructive experience of...

...Him down to the level of such an one as mortals are, and to offer a cheap commendation of Him whose ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts." This negative and apophatic theology is a mark of reverent modesty in such a writer, as it was in the...

...fairly, charitably, reverently; believing that, however strange or startling, it may come from Him whose ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts; and that he who fights against it, may haply be fighting against God. 163 True, they would receive...

...universe. Their mystery and impenetrability grow more and more marked; and the impression deepens that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. The problem grows faster than our knowledge; and more than ever, for faith and trust in this awful...

...or pain in the world. Their presence is affirmed and the mystery of God's -providence is admitted. His ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Righteousness and judgment are round about him. The word is, " What I do thou knowest not now, but...

...'unthinkable,' I admit it. But this is only saying that God is greater, and greatly greater, than we are. 'His ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts.' (9) To us, who are so little, much is 'unthinkable' or inconceivable that is also matter of daily experience....

...called. Any analogy drawn from our experience must then be inadequate to such an experience : God's ways are not as our ways nor his thoughts as our thoughts. But the difference lies simply in transcending the limit to which our experience points but can never...

...according to his will. God would have him happy, by conquering according to the will of God. In this, God's ways are not as our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts. This is the important subject here presented to us, — as illustrated in our text, by the appointed...