Quotes About Favor

Now you see for yourself that all those who do not at at all times trust God and do not in all their works or sufferings, life and death, trust in His favor, grace and good-will, but seek His favor in other things or in themselves, do not keep this Commandment, and practise real idolatry, even if they were to do the works of all the other Commandments, and in addition had all the prayers, fasting, obedience, patience, chastity, and innocence of all the saints combined.

It is rumored that the plague has broken out here, but the report is empty and false; by the favor of Christ everything is safe and quiet.

The world glories and trusts in honor, power, riches, and the favor of men. Our psalm, however, glories in none of these, for they are all uncertain and perishable.

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The reason the Lord holds you to the fire is not to punish you, but to reveal the splendor of Christ through your life. It's not so that you might earn God's favor; it's because you've already received God's favor.

Who, caught by Fortune's favoring gales, Will sail in sooner, proud and fast, And who, with conquered, silent sails, Must gain the blessed harbor last.

I don't know what I did to deserve you...but whatever the heck it was I'm sure glad I did it!

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson

You can't buy goodwill with money that ain't yours. It's not a favor to pay what's owed.

Those, and those only, shall find God to their comfort, who seek him with all their heart, that is, who are entirely devoted to him, earnestly desirous of his favour and solicitous to obtain it.

I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

It is the sensibility of Ecclesiastes: "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

To reign in life is to know that you are right with God. It is to know that God is not mad at you but mad about you. It is to know that He is happy with you, approving of you, and pleased with you. It is to know that His love is toward you constantly and His favor continually upon you. To reign in life is to live totally free from crippling guilt and condemnation with an awareness that your right standing before God can never change!4

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. —LUKE 4:18–19

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

favor de dejar un especimim em este copa para el doctor what? she told you to pee in a cup, i think that means get lost

Lord bless this land, and all who inhabit it. Bless the earth. 'Tis borrowed from you after all. Let the work be fit worship to You. Grant us safety as we work. Grant us favor against any untoward spirits. Jealousy. Greed. Bigotry." Chance paused. "Even such as shadows my own heart. Forgive my tresspasses as I forgive.

He blesses what we bless.

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." MARK TWAIN (1835–1910) US

life is not fair—the cards are incredibly stacked in your favor.

Maybe you were telling the truth, maybe it was you who brought me to Earth. But I didn't ask to come, and I don't owe you for the favor!