Theme: God's Sovereignty
that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
God works to will, and then He works to do.
Had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
No amount of money, genius, or culture can move things for God.
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
What is done in the will of God, the strength of God will not be withheld from it; what is done in the will of God must have the mighty blessing of God.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Did we believe this, it would give a check to the sinful disputes and cavils of our hearts: shall I be discontented at that which is enacted by a decree, and ordered by a providence? Is this to be a child or a rebel?
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
Prayer does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action. Everything that ever has been prayed for, of course I mean every right thing, God has already purposed to do.
We must not only be willing that God should strike us, but we must accept that He shall strike us where He wills.
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Duties are ours, events are the Lord’s.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
God sits at the stern of his church. Sometimes it is a ship tossed upon the waves, but cannot God bring this ship to haven, though it meet with a storm?
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Election has helped many a soul to heaven; but never yet hindered one.
The ways and means of God to draw souls to Himself, accomplish his design much more rapidly and effectually than all the efforts of the creature; for they destroy self-love at its very root, where, with all our pains, we could scarce discover it.
No malice of man can antedate my end a minute, whilst my Maker hath any work for me to do.
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