Quotes about Blessings
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
— John Calvin
PSALM 112 As the majority of mankind expect to prosper by evil deeds, and as they generally endeavor to enrich themselves by plunder, fraud, and every species of injustice, the prophet enumerates the blessings of God which attend those who worship him in purity, in order that we may know that, in aiming at a life of piety and morality, we shall not lose our reward.
— John Calvin
If only we were convinced deep in our hearts that persecutions are among God's blessings, what progress we should make in the knowledge of divine truth!
— John Calvin
God sometimes bestows his bounty more profusely, and, at other times, more sparingly, upon his children, according as he sees it to be most for their good;
— John Calvin
luxury generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God
— John Calvin
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
— John Calvin
God was pleased to indicate and typify both the gift of future and eternal felicity by terrestrial blessings, as well as the dreadful nature of spiritual death by bodily punishments, at that time when he delivered his covenant to the Israelites as under a kind of veil.
— John Calvin
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
— John Calvin
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
— Ann Voskamp
The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life.
— Deepak Chopra
Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.
— William Carey
If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective.
— David Jeremiah