...Rome. As I stood looking on the ruins of the Roman Forum, the words of Scripture came to me : "With God a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years." Man and his works are the playthings of time. In that bit of narrow valley the interests of the world...

...cathedral, but soon or late yields up its form and beauty as time's unceasing pendulum is swung by One with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. While on the other hand those viewless and intangible things, born of brain and soul, lofty thoughts...

...that knows its kinship with the Everlasting. It gives a hope for the world ; that that Timeless One, with Whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years, holds in His Mind the key to the awful problem of human history ; that unto Him the confusion of events,...

...the restless fretful impatience of men. There can be no impatience with God — the God of Eternity with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. There can be no impatience with God for the results of his providential rule have been planned from...

...that knows its kinship with the Everlasting. It gives a hope for the world; that that timeless One, with whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years, holds in His mind the key to the awful problem of human history; that unto Him the confusion of events,...

...from the great argument. It seems in itself something more majestic, something more befitting Him to whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years, thus to impress His will once for all on His creation, and provide for all its countless variety by...

...measurable and limited by time, but not so the Divine life. Time is not assignable to it. With God " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Further, whereas the Divine life is self-sufficient and all-sufficient, the creaturely life, as a derived...

...may still say with Lord 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 '. But that is no reason for turning days into years, or for interpreting the things 'that must shortly...

...the observation of future ages. The world has not gone back a thousand years, but that Being exists with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. And, without ascribing any deviation from ordinary laws to these events, or supposing the common Father,...

...in the hollow of His hand, there is in nature nothing great or small. As His eternity makes it that a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years ; so doth His omnipotence make of equal and utmost ease the accomplishment of all His works. The creation...