 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 782 pages
...which the rudder is of no avail ; — but the other half of the wisest men's creed in this matter, that "it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do, of His good pleasure,"1 is the essentially Christian half; — and as such, fought for by the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 802 pages
...which the rudder is of no avail ; — but the other half of the wisest men's creed in this matter, that " it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do, of His good pleasure,"1 is the essentially Christian half; — and as such, fought for by the... | |
 | Benjamin Shepard - 1911 - 558 pages
...righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. SELECTION 46 THE HIGH CALLING Phil. Seeing then, beloved, that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure, Let us work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, Being confident... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1913 - 90 pages
...(Renouf, Hibbert Lectures, 185). But Paul urges us to work out our salvation, upon the very ground that " it is God that' worketh " in us, " both to will and to work, for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:12, 13). This life of God in the soul is the life of Christ.... | |
 | Benjamin Shepard, William M. Lawrence - 1914 - 550 pages
...righteousness* sake bring my soul out of trouble. 45 soul. SELECTION 46 THE HIGH CALLING Seeing then, beloved, that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure, Let us work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, Being confident... | |
 | Don DeWelt - 1957 - 176 pages
..."rebuke" another fellow creature with human authority. We want to feel that God is speaking to our hearts. That "it is God that worketh in us both to will and to work His good pleasure" (Cf. Phil 2:11). How easy it should be to show how we sin wilfully in the... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay - 1983 - 240 pages
...by self-confidence, and an absence of that fear and trembling, which ever follows the consciousness, that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do. And what is done in such a case? Is the effect merely nugatory? Surely not: great injury is... | |
 | Charles D. Mallary - 2001 - 484 pages
...remain unconverted, is what I fully believe. That salvation too is wholly of the grace of God, and that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do, is a position to which my mind fully accords.' He also declares that ' God's free and sovereign... | |
 | William R. Newell - 1938 - 596 pages
...Paul told those same Philippians that believers were such as had "no confidence" in the flesh, and that it is God that worketh in us, "both to will and to work, for His good pleasure."* Verse 19 : For not what I am wishing am I practicing — that is,... | |
 | 1904 - 850 pages
...more the truth of the words of Paul, " In me, (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:" and that it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure, and each child of God is but a recipient of the grace of God. Is not this... | |
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Scripture ; that warrants us sufficiently, for it informs us that it is ' God that worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure... 
