Quotes about Increase
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
— Psalm 3:1
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving.
— Randy Alcorn
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
— Randy Alcorn
Because we make use of machinery in the belief we can increase the range of our freedom, and instead only decrease it, we use machines against ourselves.
— James Carse
Only in the light of Jesus can he look back and see not only that the God-given Torah had the effect of increasing "Sin," but that this was the divine intention all along.
— NT Wright
While Saul was talking to the priest, the commotion in the Philistine camp continued to increase. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
— 1 Samuel 14:19
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
— 1 Thessalonians 3:12
But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
— Leviticus 19:25
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
— Walt Whitman
The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
— Isaiah 29:19
Notice in that same prophecy, the angel told Daniel that, besides a great increase in knowledge, "many shall run to and fro" (Daniel 12:4). This second sign, a tremendous increase in the distance and speed of travel, would also occur in the same context, that being the end times. God was revealing that, once people begin to run to and fro, both farther and faster, the final years before Christ returns to set up His Millennial Kingdom will finally be upon us.
— Terry James
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.
— Joni Eareckson Tada