For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Autant les cieux sont élevés au-dessus de la terre, Autant mes voies sont élevées au-dessus de vos voies, Et mes pensées au-dessus de vos pensées.
KJV
For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ause it is impossible for man's will to be conformed to the Divine will; as appears from the word of Isa. 55:9 : "As the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts." If therefore goodness of the will depended o…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 182 (Migne)
a terra, sic exaltatae sunt viae meae a viis vestris, et cogitationes meae a cogitationibus vestris (Isai. LV, 9) . Dicimur amare, et Deus: dicimur nosse, et Deus: et multa in hunc modum. Sed Deus amat ut charitas, novit ut veritas, sedet ut aequitas, dominatur ut majestas, regit…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 202 (Migne)
a terra, sic exaltatae sunt viae meae a viis vestris, et cogitationes meae a cogitationibus vestris (Isa. LV, 9) .» Per has quidem vias et cogitationes, cogitationes et opera Ecclesiae designat, quae quantum coelum distat a terra, sic ab omni pravorum intentione longe remota est.…
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