 ... what is extraordinary ; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed, God is not in the earthquake,...  The Complete Works of John Ruskin - Page 290by John Ruskin - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1881 - 104 pages
...what is gross or what is extraordinary ; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail,...nor in the fire, but in the still small voice.— J. RUsKIN. Who covereth the heavens clouds. XXL WE are in a world of spirits, as well as in a world... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 856 pages
...hall, nor the drift of the whirlwind, tbat the highest diameters of the sublime are deTeloped. God If* not In the earthquake nor in the fire, but in the still small voice. They are hut the blunt and the low faculties of our nature which сад only be addressed through lampblack... | |
 | Thomas William Christie - 1881 - 338 pages
...Spirit. For God, to his children, is not a consuming fire ; is not in the great and strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire ; but in the still small voice of the Spirit blowing where it listeth and quickening whom he will, even the dead bones of the whole... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...what is gross, or what is extraordinary; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail,...earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still small voice.' And: 'All those passings to and fro of fruitful shower and grateful shade, and all those visions of... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Protestants - 1882 - 520 pages
...passion of a man, but with the stillness and grandeur of a God. " He was not in the whirlwind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice." And so it is still. "The whirlwind " of battle, " the earthquake " of political convulsion and change,... | |
 | Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell - 1882 - 122 pages
...my life, in order that I may hear Him speak. 4. To remember that the LORD spake not in the wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still small voice. THOUGHT. ' Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Protestants - 1882 - 500 pages
...passion of a man, but with the stillness and grandeur of a God. " He was not in the whirlwind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice." And so it is still. " The whirlwind " of battle, " the earthquake " of political convulsion and change,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...what is gross, or what is extraordinary ; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail,...not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the stjjl small voice. They are but the blunt and the low faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed... | |
 | Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1883 - 426 pages
...Christian, and much less reviling those who differ from us. The Lord was not in the strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire ; but in the still small voice. 1 Kings xix. n, 12. He that taketh offence at everything that differs from him, shows great weakness.... | |
 | Juan de Valdés - 1883 - 380 pages
...the first Book of Kings xix. 1 1, 12, when Elijah was told that God was not in the great wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still small breeze which came after that the great wind, the earthquake, and the fire had passed. And this is narrated,... | |
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