 We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Blessings, Gifts, Providence |
| Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Prayer, Providence |
| How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb? Author: Alan Keyes
Topics: Abortion, Liberty |
| Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Joy |
| If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Service, Power, Consecration |
We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic.
- James Madison Author: Assorted Authors
Source: Inaugural Address
Topics: God, Government |
|
|
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
- Patrick Henry Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: God, Government, Liberty |
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.
- Bernard of Clairvaux Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Prayer, Contentment |
| A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent. Author: Augustine
Topics: Blessings, Eternity |
| Our faith itself, though it be the bond of our union with Christ through which we receive all His blessings, is not our saviour. We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all. Author: B.B. Warfield
Topics: Jesus, Salvation |
| What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the cup of salvation - a toast to God! Author: Bono
Topics: Blessings, Salvation |
| In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings! Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer |
| God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite. Author: F.F. Bruce
Source: Hard Sayings of Jesus
Topics: Blessings |
| There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them. The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Gratitude, Humility |
| The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Blessings, The Heart, Thankfulness |
| Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. Author: Horatius Bonar
Topics: Life, Strength |
| Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Blessings |
| The private and personal blessings we enjoy - the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity - deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Blessings, Thankfulness, Integrity |
| Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Faith, Believing |
| He that hath so many and great causes of joy, and yet is in love with sorrow and peevishness, deserves to starve in the midst of plenty, and to want comfort, while he is encircled with blessings. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Blessings, Comfort, Joy |
| We are brought into God's Kingdom by grace; we are sanctified by grace; we receive both temporal and spiritual blessings by grace; we are motivated to obedience by grace; we are called to serve and, finally, we are glorified by grace. The entire Christian life is lived under the reign of God's grace. Author: Jerry Bridges
Topics: Grace, Sanctification |
| All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Blessings, Service |
| However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Blessings, Liberty |
| Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer |
| Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Heaven, Hell |
| Infidelity and Faith look both through the same perspective-glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost their greatness. Author: Joseph Hall
Topics: Faith |
| God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy. Author: Lester Roloff
Topics: Charity |
| What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Blessings, Holiness, Righteousness |
| God wants to see prayers that are filled with genuine praise and thanksgiving for what He has done in the past. He wants our hearts to be filled with awe and gratitude for His blessings. He wants us to set up memorials in our hearts testifying to the provisions He has given us. Author: Michael Youssef
Topics: Prayer, Thankfulness |
| Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Saviour, because Thou has died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus. Author: Ole Hallesby
Topics: Blessings |
| God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things. Author: Richard Sibbes
Topics: Perseverance |
| An angelic life, spent between ascending in prayer to fetch blessings from above, and descending to scatter them among men. Author: Robert Leighton
Topics: Prayer |
| A little child often runs to its mother and exclaims: 'Mother! Mother!' Very often the child does not want anything in particular, he only wants to be near his mother, to sit upon her lap, or to follow her about the house, for the sheer pleasure of being near her, talking to her, hearing her dear voice. Then the child is happy. His happiness does not consist in asking and receiving all kinds of things from his mother. If that were what he wanted, he would be impatient and obstinate and therefore unhappy. No, his happiness lies in feeling his mother's love and care, and in knowing the joy of her mother love." "It is just the same with the true children of God; they do not trouble themselves so much about spiritual blessings. They only want to sit at the Lord's feet, to be in living touch with Him, and when they do that they are supremely content. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Contentment |
| While I was in Tibet I saw a Buddhist, a monk, who had lived for five or six years in a cave. When he went into the cave he had good eyesight. But because he stayed so long in the darkness his eyes grew weaker and weaker, and at last he became quite blind. It is just the same with us. If we do not use the blessings which we have received from God for His Glory, we are in danger of losing them for ever. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Blessings |
| Many favors which God gives us ravel out for want of hemming through our unthankfulness; for though prayer purchases blessings, giving praise keeps the quiet possession of them. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Prayer, Thankfulness |
To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings.
- Author Unknown Author: Unknown Authors
Topics: Love, Virtue, Blessings |
| Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste. Author: Vance Havner
Topics: Christians, Blessings |
| Some of your greatest blessings come with patience. Author: Warren Wiersbe
Topics: Blessings, Patience |
| Grace is not such a beggarly visitant, as will not pay its own way. When the best of beings is adored, the best of blessings are enjoyed. Author: William Secker
Topics: Grace |
| Cherish your enemies; they may be blessings in disguise. Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Enemies |
| Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else. Author: Woodrow Kroll
Topics: Blessings |
