Bible Dictionary: Man: Cannot Direct his Ways

◄ Man: Cannot Direct his Ways ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jeremiah 10:23
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 20:24
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Whether one Can Intend Two Things at the Same Time?
... expression "two things" may be taken in two ways: they may ... to Objection 1: Augustine
means to say that man cannot at the same time direct his attention to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether one can intend two.htm

Whether Without Grace a Man Can Prepare Himself for Grace
... and every cause is therefore bound to direct its effects to ... of the first mover, and
to his penultimate end ... me to draw near to God." A man cannot therefore turn ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article six whether without grace.htm

Whether a Man, by Himself and Without the External Aid of Grace ...
... acts for an end, every cause must direct is effect ... to receive the sun's light, by
turning his eyes towards ... Hence it is clear that man cannot prepare himself to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether a man by himself.htm

God's Exhaustive Knowledge of Man.
... is not self-inspecting at these points cannot destroy the ... he sees clearly that it
is a direct violation of ... have been discussing, even the natural man should be ...
/.../shedd/sermons to the natural man/gods exhaustive knowledge of man.htm

Four Questions on the Perfection of Righteousness: -1 Whether a ...
... is not in man to walk and direct his steps." [475 ... these and many other like testimonies,
I cannot doubt that God has laid no impossible command on man; and that ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 7 vi four questions on.htm

Use to be Made of the Doctrine of Providence.
... of wickedness belongs to the wicked man, why should ... at the justice of God, but cannot
reach it ... that nothing happens fortuitously, will always direct his eye to ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 17 use to be.htm

Whether an Individual Action Can be Indifferent?
... For since it belongs to the reason to direct; if an ... object of human action is such
that it cannot be directed ... Thus man, as far as his species is concerned, is ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether an individual action can.htm

Man and the New Covenant.
... But we cannot off-hand accept it as Jeremiah's own; the ... VI.6-8: namely, that every
man should be ... he had taught religion as the individual's direct knowledge of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/2 man and the new.htm

The New Man
... It too is a direct gift from God. ... since, 'the Lord God made them' the covering which
they cannot make for ... lowly trust that it is true of us, 'If any man be in ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the new man.htm

Psalm CXIX.
... the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be attained. ... [5133] This man
wisheth himself ... account he desireth that his ways may be made direct to keep ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxix.htm