| 1838 - 508 Seiten
...Churches is performed by barely two, and these have the oversight of more than twelve hundred members ! " The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift ; for it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." As it may be interesting... | |
| 1831 - 408 Seiten
...on my mind, witli powerful conviction, "That man, as a creature, is, in a religious sense, nothing; that the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift; but that it is through mere mercy we are saved, not by works of our own, but by a total surrender of... | |
| John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1831 - 392 Seiten
...on my mind, with powerful conviction, " That man, as a creature, is, in a religious sense, nothing; that the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift; but that it is through mere mercy we are saved, not by works of our own, but by a total surrender of... | |
| David Meredith Reese - 1834 - 224 Seiten
...before the shepherd's boys, whose " inward light" had armed them with the sling and stone of truth! " The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift ;" — " not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." " Seest thou a man wise in... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 612 Seiten
...them or by them ; for he can make one to chase a thousand, a thousand to put ten thousand to flight. "The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift. — Worm Jacob " in his hand will arise " and thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and make the... | |
| 1836 - 604 Seiten
...Emmanuel to pu! on their armor, and conic up to the help of their Lord against the mighty, remembering that the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swill, that it is Jehovah alone who can make truth, righteousness, and peace everywhere victorious,... | |
| Daniel Wheeler - 1839 - 308 Seiten
...under a sense of this constraining power, and 'with sincerity of desire, that will be benefited. ' The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift.' ' Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.' ' Let not your heart be troubled,... | |
| William Huntington - 1842 - 236 Seiten
...stature of God, whether the stature be in grace or in providence. * " The battle," saith the wise man, " is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, nor bread to men of skill; " the w.eak are often seen to win the field, and the cripple to win the heavenly... | |
| George Bush - 1844 - 234 Seiten
...worthiness and of humble dependence on ihe Divine blessing. Caleb in these words virtually acknowledges that the battle is not to the strong nor the race to the swift, and that the favorable presence of God with us in our undertakings is all in all to our success. The... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 Seiten
...men are made has ceased to exist among us. We are well aware that in these latter years at the bar, " the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift." In putting this forward, though certainly with no undue prominence, in the course of his biography,... | |
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