 | Thomas Brooks - 1859 - 330 pages
...approaches to God. Vain thoughts will still be crowding in upon him who lives in a crowd of business. If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small, (Prov. xxiv. 10). Man has no trial of his strength till he is in. trouble ; faintness then discovers... | |
 | George Albert Rogers - 1859 - 176 pages
...oak is proclaimed by the might of the storm and the tempest, which uproots a forest of saplings. " If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." (Prov. xxiv. 10.) Now Gideon did not faint. He waxed, like David when opposed to Saul, stronger and... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pages
...mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin : and the scorner is an abomination to men. 10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain... | |
 | 1856 - 596 pages
...earnestly and sedulously than ever. Let all of us remember the words of God, and not incur the rebuke, If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small: if thmt hast run with the footmen and they have wearied thee, then how tcaut thou contend with horses... | |
 | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) - 1954 - 388 pages
...lost, men fall headlong into vices, and are taken away from good works. Hence the gloss on Prov. 24:10, "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small," says: "Nothing is more execrable than despair. For he who despairs loses his constancy in the daily... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1990 - 356 pages
...him rest from the days of adversity." Psalm 94:13 "A brother is born for adversity." Proverbs 17:17 "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." Proverbs 24:10 "In the day of adversity consider." Ecclesiastes 7:14 "The Lord give you the bread of... | |
 | Janet Lowe - 2000 - 314 pages
...their reproductive destiny, we're in an unequal society," Buffett said.10 THE BUFFALO EVENING NEWS If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. The Bible, Proverbs THE MUNGER CHILDREN HAVE NEVER forgotten the summer of 1 977 after their father and... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pages
...a mischievous person. The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If... | |
 | Dawn Miller - 2001 - 307 pages
...In the distance I can see the Sierra Mountains, the threat of winter eating at the peaks with snow. "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small": Proverbs 24:10. Reaching the pass today, we saw three large wagons in the distance and thought we'd... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 648 pages
...suppositional inferences. "If. . .If. . .If. . . ," he wrote. i. The Man with No Moral Courage (24:10) "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." The last kind of person who ought to be in a position of power is the man who caves in before opposition. In... | |
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