 | 1853 - 1048 pages
...comparative. He is neither restricted by limits, nor affected by contrast; all is absolute with him ; a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years : a planet's orbit is as a needle's eye, and a needle's eye as a planet's orbit ; to create a universe... | |
 | William Williams Mather - 1841 - 308 pages
...changes may ap. pear of almost inconceivable duration ; but we art expressly told, that with the Creator "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand." Geological Discoveries Consistent with the Bible. " It may seem just matter of surprise, that many... | |
 | 1842 - 426 pages
...God there is no THERE ; there is no THEN : all is one universal HERE ; one perpetual Now. With God "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." "With Him there is no variableness nor shadow of turning." All this is true of Jesus our Redeemer,... | |
 | 1843 - 414 pages
...termed 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... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1866 - 1078 pages
...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... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - 1843 - 262 pages
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 666 pages
...loss of many nations, and even the final rejection of the chosen people, was nevertheless in the sight of Him with whom a thousand years are as one day, and the nations as the small dust of the balance, the only method of preparing the way to make His salvation... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 846 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Adams - 1844 - 134 pages
...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... | |
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Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. 
