Quotes About Bounty

As to why God had singled out John D. Rockefeller for such spectacular bounty, Rockefeller always adverted to his own adherence to the doctrine of stewardship—the notion of the wealthy man as a mere instrument of God, a temporary trustee of his money, who devoted it to good causes. "It has seemed as if I was favored and got increase because the Lord knew that I was going to turn around and give it back."73

The Nazis confiscated his personal property, burned his works on relativity, and put a five-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.

Affluence = abundant flow.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?

he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

For people, the pulse of abundance felt like a gift, a profusion of food to be simply picked up from the ground.

It is our work, and our gratitude, that distills the sweetness

It seems hard to argue with gratitude for berries.

I guessed that only at the last possible minute did the soul in a determined fashion flee the dying flesh. Who could blame it for its reluctance? We loved our lives more than we ever knew, and at the end felt the bounty of them, as one would say in church, felt even the richness of their missed opportunities, or just understood that they were more than we had realized during the living of them and a lot to give up.

Junius pocketed a fortune from this sudden windfall.

The English government paid bounties for the Irish heads. Later only the scalp or ears were required. A century later in North America, Indian heads and scalps were brought in for bounty in the same manner. Although the Irish were as "white" as the English, transforming them into alien others to be exterminated previewed what came to be perceived as racialist when applied to Indigenous peoples of North America and to Africans.

ANIMAL, n. An organism which, requiring a great number of other animals for its sustenance, illustrates in a marked way the bounty of Providence in preserving the lives of his creatures.

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful

Then came October full of merry glee . . .

Blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.