 | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1881 - 536 pages
...souls by the teaching of the word. We have endeavored to insist prominently that this can be done "not by might, nor by power," but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts. These have been the principles and aims which have guided the work of this Department this... | |
 | English periodicals - 1881 - 858 pages
...turned the world upside down — the principle that God can save by few as by many; that it is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord that the mightiest deeds are done. That divine Spirit of purity, of love, of righteousness, can make... | |
 | Thomas E. Thoresby - 1881 - 514 pages
...thankful to say that the number of Communicants increases with the growth of the congregations. It is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore, to God be all the glory. Speaking of myself, deficiencies crave your mild forbearance, but... | |
 | Young men's Christian assoc Newcastle-on-Tyne - 1882 - 20 pages
...derived from united, earnest, believing prayer. As an Association we need to be reminded that it is " not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord," that the highest success in Christian work is attainable. "• i The Saturday Evening Prayer Meeting... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1883 - 360 pages
...pleases God to save by many or by few — a single word spoken in season, how good is it ; it is not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. And I do trust that those labourers who may be removed for a space from the sphere of their operations... | |
 | William Dennes] [Mahan - 1864 - 364 pages
...greatness. But I told them that they were mistaken ; that the building up of the kingdom of heaven was not to be done by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, and it would not do for us to use carnal weapons, nor to expect carnal pleasures derived therefrom;... | |
 | William Dennes Mahan - Apocryphal books (New Testament) - 1884 - 368 pages
...greatness. But I told them that they were mistaken ; that the building up of the kingdom of heaven was not to be done by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, and it would not do for us to use carnal weapons, nor to expect carnal pleasures derived therefrom... | |
 | Arthur T. Pierson - Missions - 1886 - 396 pages
...Christ's witnesses the tongues of fire, and melt hard hearts before the burning message. It is not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, that all true success must be secured. Let us call upon God till He answereth by fire ! What we are... | |
 | John Heyl Vincent - Sunday schools - 1887 - 358 pages
...all these subsidiaries at perfect command, do not forget that the end we seek is not to be attained by " might, nor by power," but by the Spirit of the Lord. We do not depreciate " might " nor " power." Only this : we do not expect ourselves to accomplish the... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1888 - 716 pages
...power with which men are to be converted ? Eloquence, say some. The Church of God says, " Not so. Not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord." I solemnly believe that so much of human oratory as there is in a sermon, so much there is of the weakness... | |
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... but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, that the world is to be overcome, and the kingdom of righteousness and peace established. 
