...a long life, to him who knows that his spirit shall return to that God, his reconciled Father, with whom " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years?" But it is only he who can say, with St. Paul, " To me to live is Christ," that can also add — and...

...done, is to judge of them after the model of man's ways and the current of man's thoughts. With God ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years;' in other words, time is nothing with the Eternal. The act of creation is instantaneous, whether in...

...they all live to God, live to Him to whom a thousand 1 Price's Sermons on Christian Doctrine: p. 191. years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. Immortality itself is not bestowed upon us by the Gospel ; but the promise, the confident expectation...

...elated or depressed according to present success or failure. In the Catholic Church, on the other hand, a ' thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' We work hy system, and lay our plans for all time to come ; and when your temporary plans are forgotten,...

...of time is too short for the really penitent to obtain the forgiveness of God; we know that with Him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. Had Rhoda been able to repent, her last staggering footsteps might have carried her beyond the reach...

...elated or depressed according to present success or failure. In the Catholic Church, on the other hand, a ' thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' We work by system, and lay our plans for all time to come ; and when your temporary plans are forgotten,...

...the effect of his atoning sacrifice as complete now, as they were eighteen hundred years ago. To him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." " I doubt not his grace," said the poor youth, with a deep sigh, "God forbid that I should. But, granting...

...The blessings of eternal redemption had been antedated through the tender mercies of our God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years; in virtue of covenant engagements to be performed in time, mercy, through the Redeemer, instantly commenced...

...is the Eternal Now — the great I AM — who is " the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever ;" with whom " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years" — " from everlasting to everlasting" He is God ! Let, then, the Christian householder be ever bringing...

...are pleased to call the present beautiful earth, and seen in it all, how wonderful are his ways, with whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years! But these are, in the main, the veiled wonders of the earthly tabernacle. They are the familiar altars...