Quotes About Favor

Better yet, combine your warmth and flattery with requests that they do a small favor or two FOR YOU. This strategy is akin to what author David McRaney calls "the Benjamin Franklin effect," which is based on experiments that show we come to like people that we do nice things for and to dislike people that we treat unkindly.

In the East they say that luck favors the prepared mind. I believe that life favors the prepared mind.

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

Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

To use a popular illustration, all other religions are spelled "D-O." That is, they are based on people doing something, through their struggling and striving, to somehow earn the good favor of God. [...] By contrast, Christianity is spelled "D-O-N-E," because it's based on what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

They should get another lawyer," he said. "Surely there are better people around. That man with the big nose—you know the one—they say that he's very good. The judges can't take their eyes off his nose, and so they always decide in his favour.

Many people only go to see other people when they want to ask for some favour.

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply; for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.

We are never quits towards those who have done us a favour,' said Dantès. 'Even when one ceases to owe them money, one owes them gratitude.

Nothing unleashes the favor of God like a godly response to an unfair situation.

I'm doing you a favor," replied the colonel with a smile of his own. "Just remember what Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds." "Well, yeah," said the major in amusement. "If you're a lump of coal. If you're a human being, that same pressure turns you into splatter. Like a bug on a windshield.

In all matters, whether to do with money, sex, or anything else, no man feels that the scales are weighted in his favor. And so just as the men of resentment talk about "justice" while meaning "revenge," so it is that something is disguised within their talk of "equality.

So it is a grace and a gift from God to excel in your work. It is another gift from God to reap the benefits of excelling in your work. Though they usually go together (but not always), the two must not be confused, and the order of the two must never be reversed. Doing this will enable us to keep our priorities right where they are supposed to be: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold" (Prov. 22:1).

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

Here as elsewhere, the attackers were favored above the attacked. They were not so far from the world after all.

It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.