Quotes about Favor
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)
— Anonymous
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
— Anonymous
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
— Anonymous
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
— Anonymous
Without humility, there can be no true dwelling in God's presence or enjoying His favor and the power of His Spirit.
— Andrew Murray
Here on earth the influence of one who asks a favor for others depends entirely on his character, and the relationship he bears to him with whom he is interceding.
— Andrew Murray
And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.
— John Calvin
The Jews were continually warned not to look for the reason for their adoption elsewhere than in God's free favor. He had seen fit to choose them; this alone was the source of their security.
— John Calvin
Those whom the Lord favours not with the direction of his Spirit, he, by a righteous judgement, consigns to the agency of Satan.
— John Calvin
Before we receive any knowledge of God's Fatherly good will for us, the blood of Christ must intercede for us and restore us to God's favor.
— John Calvin
he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.
— John Calvin
in the freest manner, and on no mercenary grounds, does God bestow upon us his love and favor, just as, when we were not yet born, and when he was prompted by nothing but his own will, he fixed upon us his choice.
— John Calvin