...But I told them 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 to be derived therefrom...

...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...

...first appearance, on the Thursday, before the commission, that we might see, that it was not to be done by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord : but afterwards He raised us up, that our adversaries could no more triumph over us. Many times the...

...do. We need more learning and more thought, more prayer and more zeal. We need to feel that it is not by might nor by power, but by the spirit of the Lord of Hosts, the spirit of truth and love, that we are to succeed and our work to be done. In this Christian temper...

...skillful use of the sword of the Spirit. advance of the people they would lead. While success is " not by might nor by power," but by the Spirit of the Lord, yet God works through agencies, and in the past he intrusted his great movements to the leading scholars...

...manifestly that again the testimony of the church, as she shakes herself from the dust, shall be, " Not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts." For, lastly, wherever this process of preparation is going on in a spiritual community, we have in...

...success, which the money exnded, or the intelligence received, led ns to anticipate, that, nevertheless, it was not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of God alone, that our operations could be successful. Not only so ; hut we cannot fail to remember scenes...

...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 carnel pleasures derived therefrom...

...original preserves even in the lamps and their pipes the dual idea ; the expression is seven, seven. Truly it was "not by might nor by power, but by the spirit of the Lord," that the work of redemption, "my work, my strange work," as described by another prophet, was accomplished....

...But I told them 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 to be derived therefrom...