Chapter 9 | Quotes From Pages 84-92 1.Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
2.Omniscience governing omnipotence, infinite power ruled by infinite wisdom, is a basic biblical description of the divine character.
3.God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
4.His ultimate objective is to bring them to a state in which they please him entirely and praise him adequately, a state in which he is all in all to them.
5.God in his wisdom means to make something of us which we have not attained yet, and he is dealing with us accordingly.
6.He knows the way he taketh, even if for the moment we do not.
7.Paul saw part of the reason for his own afflictions in the fact that God 'comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can
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8.As he responded to God's call, leaves home, and travels through the land which his descendants are to possess... we observe in him a new meekness...