God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
– F.F. Bruce
Blessings
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
– C.S. Lewis
Blessings
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
– Matthew Henry
Blessings | Holiness | Righteousness
Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, “I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou has died for me.” Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.
– Ole Hallesby
Blessings
Some of your greatest blessings come with patience.
– Warren Wiersbe
Blessings | Patience
I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God’s help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can’t expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living.
– Ronald Reagan
Blessings | America
Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.
– Woodrow Kroll
Blessings
Lord, if You bless me, I’ll thank You; but if You don’t, I’ll be thankful for what I have.
– Phil Robertson
Blessings | Thankfulness
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
– Peter Marshall
Suffering | Blessings
The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.
– Jack Hyles
Blessings
When we get full of this grace we want to see every one blessed–we want to see all the churches blessed, not only all the churches here, but in the whole country. That was the trouble with Christ’s disciples. He had hard work to make them understand that His gospel was for every one, that it was a stream to flow out to all nations of the earth. They wanted to confine it to the Jews, and He had to convince them that it was for every living being.
– Dwight L. Moody
Blessings
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
– John Calvin
Blessings | Liberty
God will either give you what you ask or something far better.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Blessings
After giving something to God, you are no longer accountable for it. Your blessing is based on your giving, not on what others do with the gift.
– Ed Cole
Giving | Blessings
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
– A. W. Tozer
God | Blessings
Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?
– John Owen
Blessings
Christ frequently gives us the desires of our heart, though not at the peculiar time we desired, but a better time.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Blessings
God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
– Charles Spurgeon
Giving | Blessings
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
– Jeremy Taylor
Blessings
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
– John Calvin
Prayer | Blessings
Just because creation gives God great delight, we cannot say that He is worshipping it; rather, He is worshipping Himself as He sees His goodness bringing such blessing to people that they give their heartfelt thanks and praise to Him for the benefits He imparts.
– Daniel Fuller
Creation | Blessings
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! Labor is life.
– Thomas Carlyle
Blessings | Work
Let’s not bless others just to receive a blessing in return from them.
– Victoria Thomas Pollar
Blessings | Giving
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
– Oswald Chambers
Worship | Blessings | Stewardship
I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
– Alan Redpath
Blessings
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look “seven times,” that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).
– John Flavel
Blessings
“Amplius” means broader, fuller, wider. That is God’s perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon.
– F.B. Meyer
The Holy Spirit | Blessings
The private and personal blessings we enjoy – the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity – deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
– Jeremy Taylor
Blessings | Thankfulness | Integrity
What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation – a toast to God!
– Bono
Blessings | Salvation
Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
– Watchman Nee
Eternal Life | The Future | Blessings
All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
– Assorted Authors
Blessings | Thankfulness | Discontentment
To deny that God seeks to bless his people is to envision a God who ignores his own recorded words.
– RM Harrington
Blessings | God
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
– Augustine
Blessings | Eternity
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
– Assorted Authors
Blessings | God
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Cheerfulness | Blessings
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
– Assorted Authors
Blessings | Providence | Failure
I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
– Alan Redpath
Blessings
Christ’s life unfolds, in part, as we learn to appreciate the gifts He has given us. How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. (For example) The husband or wife who has Christ as their life, comes to their spousal relationship already satisfied. They do not come continually looking to made happy by another person’s attention; they bring Christ’s life to their spouse.
– Francis Frangipane
Blessings | Happiness
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
– John Calvin
Blessings | Service
Have you heard God’s blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, ‘You are my beloved child, in whom I delight’ an endless source of joy and strength? Have you sensed, through the Holy Spirit, God speaking to you? That blessing- the blessing through the Spirit that is ours through Christ- is what Jacob received and it is the only remedy against idolatry. Only that blessing makes idols unnecessary. As with Jacob, we usually discover this only after a life of ‘looking for blessings in all the wrong places.’ It often takes an experience of crippling weakness for us to finally discover it. That is why so many of the most God-blessed people limp as they dance for joy.
– Tim Keller
Blessings
While I was in Tibet I saw a Buddhist, a monk, who had lived for five or six years in a cave. When he went into the cave he had good eyesight. But because he stayed so long in the darkness his eyes grew weaker and weaker, and at last he became quite blind. It is just the same with us. If we do not use the blessings which we have received from God for His Glory, we are in danger of losing them forever.
– Sadhu Sundar Singh
Blessings
When Abraham offered the tithe and received a blessing, Levi was not yet born, nor even were his father and grandfather. Yet the Bible considers Abraham’s tithe and blessing as Levi’s.
– Watchman Nee
Blessings | The Bible
In spiritual things, when God has raised a desire, He always gratifies it; hence the longing is prophetic of the blessing. In no case is the desire of the living thing excited to produce distress, but in order that it may seek and find satisfaction.
– Charles Spurgeon
Blessings
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
– John Calvin
Blessings | Service
Love flows from the denial of the self life. Blood shedding is the source of blessing.
– Watchman Nee
Blessings
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
– Helen Keller
Blessings
When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
– Watchman Nee
Blessings | Service | Gifts
The labor and sweat of our brows is so far from being a curse, that without it our very bread would not be so great a blessing. If it were not for labor, men could neither eat so much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor sleep so soundly, nor be so healthful, so useful, so strong, so patient, so noble, nor so untempted.
– Jeremy Taylor
Blessings
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
– John Calvin
Faith | Blessings
Opposition is not only evidence that God is blessing, but it is also an opportunity for us to grow.
– Warren Wiersbe
Blessings | Adversity
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
– Henry Ward Beecher
Blessings | The Heart | Thankfulness
God promises spectacular blessings to those of you who remain single in Christ, and He gives you and extraordinary calling for your life. To be single in Christ is, therefore, not a falling short of God’s best, but a path of Christ-exalting, covenant-keeping obedience that many are called to walk.
– John Piper
Blessings | Obedience
It’s a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.
– Adrian Rogers
Blessings | Satan
We should therefore learn that the only good we have is what the Lord has given us gratuitously; that the only good we do is what He does in us; that it is not that we do nothing ourselves, but that we act only when we have been acted upon, in other words under the direction and influence of the Holy Spirit.
– John Calvin
Blessings
God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.
– John Newton
Blessings | Feelings
God denies a Christian nothing but with a design to give him something better.
– Richard Cecil
Blessings
Nobody gets a blessing if they have cold feet and nobody ever got saved while they had toothache!
– William Booth
Blessings
There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God; so then it shall bring forth such plenty of reward, that it shall return upon thee with abundance of increase.
– John Bunyan
Blessings | Rewards
If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.
– John Flavel
Blessings
When we ask of the Lord cooly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we “pretend” that we are seeking.
– Charles Spurgeon
Blessings
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
– John Flavel
Blessings
We are blessed to have one day a week for rest and relaxation.
– Crystal McDowell
Rest | Blessings
Christian, let God’s distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.
– John Bunyan
Blessings
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
– Richard Chenevix Trench
Blessings
A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.
– C.S. Lewis
Patience | Blessings
He that hath so many and great causes of joy, and yet is in love with sorrow and peevishness, deserves to starve in the midst of plenty, and to want comfort, while he is encircled with blessings.
– Jeremy Taylor
Blessings | Comfort | Joy
Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.
– Sadhu Sundar Singh
Affliction | Blessings
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
– Thomas a Kempis
Blessings
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
– Charles Spurgeon
Blessings | Prayer
I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.
– Sarah Palin
Blessings
We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.
– A. B. Simpson
Blessings | Gifts | Providence