Backwards Quote by John Flavel Download Open image “Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.” — John Flavel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backwards Hebrew Judaism Letters Providence
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The special knowledge you are about to learn will reveal a “letter theory” that was set into motion from the very first verse in… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look… — George B. McClellan Copy Share Image
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“What openings of providence do we wait for? We can neither expect to be transported into the heathen world without ordinary means, nor to… — William Carey Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it. — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
