Quotes about Favor
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
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Livy
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
- Joseph Campbell
Summarized as follows: Sunday: Favor with God (spiritual revelation, anointing, holiness). Monday: Favor with others (congregations, ministry staff, unsaved). Tuesday: Increased vision (wisdom and enlightenment, motives, guidance). Wednesday: Spirit, Soul, Body (health, appearance, attitudes.
- Dutch Sheets