He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
~ Compton Gage
The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
~ Compton Gage
There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:
~ Compton Gage
Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-
~ Compton Gage
One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.
~ Compton Gage
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
~ Compton Gage
To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.
~ Compton Gage
An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.
~ Compton Gage
After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.
~ Compton Gage
Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.
~ Compton Gage
Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?
~ Compton Gage
Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.
~ Compton Gage
O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?
~ Compton Gage
As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?
~ Compton Gage
Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.
~ Compton Gage
Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?
~ Compton Gage
I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.
~ Compton Gage
Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?
~ Compton Gage
The creature may not haste above the maker, neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
~ Compton Gage
As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.
~ Compton Gage
Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
~ Compton Gage
She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.
~ Compton Gage
How my adventures become your sins?
~ Compton Gage
Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.
~ Compton Gage
What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?
~ Compton Gage
If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise: Peradventure thou would say unto me, ‘I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.
~ Compton Gage
Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them.
~ Compton Gage
Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight?
~ Compton Gage
It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.
~ Compton Gage
I went into a forest into a plain, and the trees took counsel- And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods. The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country. The thought of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it. The thought of the floods of the sea came likewise to nought, for the sand stood up and stopped them. If thou wart judge now betwixt these two, whom would thou begin to justify? or whom would thou condemn?
~ Compton Gage
Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.
~ Compton Gage
Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?
~ Compton Gage
For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwell above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.
~ Compton Gage
I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.
~ Compton Gage
Wherefore the present age is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations?!
~ Compton Gage
Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-
~ Compton Gage
We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
~ Compton Gage
What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.
~ Compton Gage
The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
~ Compton Gage
The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-
~ Compton Gage
