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
Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.
– Woodrow Kroll
Blessings
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself or less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
– Tim Keller
God | The Gospel | Humility | Pride | Sin
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
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
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
Yes, let God be the Judge. Your job today is to be a witness.
– Warren Wiersbe
Justice | Witnessing
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
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
– Augustine
Sin | Good and Evil | Confession
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
We must do our business faithfully; without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to GOD mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from Him.
– Brother Lawrence
Contentment | Business
It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him – freedom from sin.
– Watchman Nee
Sin | Freedom | Salvation
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
It takes a man of God, with the Word of God, and the Spirit of God, to make the children of God, for the glory of God.
– Jack Wellman
Evangelism | Witnessing
Sin came through the pride of Lucifer and salvation came through the humility of Jesus.
– Zac Poonen
Sin | Pride | Humility
If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.
– David Jeremiah
Evangelism | Witnessing
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
– Blaise Pascal
Sin | Righteousness | Men
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill
God | Sin | Materialism
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
– Charles Stanley
Evangelism | Discipleship | Witnessing
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
– Zig Ziglar
Success | Home | Business
To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
– Max Lucado
Witnessing | Life
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
– Isaac Watts
Happiness | Sin | Deception
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
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy | Business | Rest
All sin results from failure to act in faith.
– John MacArthur
Sin
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
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
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
Every day you are witnessing. What are you witnessing to? Your witness is the total package of your attitudes, character, and actions. It does not lie.
– Winkie Pratney
Witnessing
Sinning will keep you from the Bible but the Bible will keep you from sinning.
– Jack Wellman
Sin | The Bible
We need to give a little extra thought to our words so that they will be life-giving and helpful to our hearers.
– Crystal McDowell
Witnessing
Let others report bad news; we’ll share the good news.
– Woodrow Kroll
Witnessing
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
There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Sin
There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
– John Owen
Sin | The Cross
God desires for you to be involved in drawing people to His Word through a dedicated life to Him and an active witness for Him.
– Paul Chappell
Witnessing
The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it’s strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Authority | Witnessing
Are we willing to publicly confess our allegiance to God and His ability to save?
– Crystal McDowell
Witnessing | Obedience
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
BlessingsWork
Let’s not bless others just to receive a blessing in return from them.
– Victoria Thomas Pollar
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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
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
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
– John Owen
Sin
And the longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
– Richard Baxter
Sin
All sin promises to serve and please but only desires to enslave and dominate.
– Ed Cole
Sin
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
– Assorted Authors
God | Prayer | Business
He that boasts of being one of God’s elect, while he is willfully and habitually living in sin, is only deceiving himself, and talking wicked blasphemy.
– J. C. Ryle
Sin | Boasting
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day’s business.
– William Penn
Prayer | Business
Let them fear death who do not fear sin.
– Thomas Watson
Death | Sin
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
– William Booth
Sin
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.
– Watchman Nee
Sin | Overcoming
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
– Martin Luther
Sin | Grace | Freedom
A person who is not being purified from sin has no claim on being saved from it.
– John MacArthur
Purity | Sin
It is only deliberate, willful sin that has not been confessed and forgiven that makes us feel that God has forsaken us, for that sin causes Him to hide His face from us.
– Alan Redpath
Sin | Confession
A testimony is something that serves as evidence.
– Victoria Thomas Pollar
Faith | Witnessing
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
– Zig Ziglar
Business
Oh cursed sin! It was you who slew my dear Lord! For your sake He underwent all this! If your vileness had not been so great, His sufferings had not been so many. Cursed sin! You were the knife which stabbed Him! You the sword which pierced Him!
– John Flavel
Sin
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
The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
– Martin Luther
SinRepentance
There is no sin in the whole catalogue of sins you can name but Christ will deliver you from it perfectly.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
– Thomas Adams
Sin | Grace
The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
– Randy Alcorn
Grace | Sin | Materialism
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
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
It is the signature of the Holy Ghost upon our work and witness that makes all the difference.
– Duncan Campbell
The Holy Spirit | Witnessing
The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.
– William Temple
Sin | Salvation
Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
– Watchman Nee
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We must not forget that it wasn’t the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn’t the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.
– Franklin Graham
The Cross | Sin
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
I do not know anything that would wake up Chicago better than for every man and woman here who loves Him to begin to talk about Him to their friends, and just to tell them what He has done for you. You have got a circle of friends. Go and tell them of Him.
– Dwight L. Moody
Witnessing
Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
– R. C. Sproul
Sin
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart and eradicates every virtue.
– Francois Fenelon
Sin | Virtue | The Heart
To deny that God seeks to bless his people is to envision a God who ignores his own recorded words.
– RM Harrington
Blessings | God
There are no easy steps to witnessing! No painless, unembarrassing methods! You must bring men to see that they are filthy sinners under the wrath of God who must flee to Christ for mercy. That is offensive. And there is no way to coat it with honey.
– Walter J. Chantry
Witnessing
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.
– A. W. Tozer
Sin | Power
Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
– G.V. Wigram
Witnessing | Light
Sin is, essentially, a departure from God.
– Martin Luther
Sin
He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful.
– Dwight L. Moody
Sin | Purity | Service
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
I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist. I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head. I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition!
– Billy Sunday
Sin
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
– Assorted Authors
Blessings | God
We can be assured that each step deeper into the Lord’s Presence will reveal areas in our hearts which need to be cleansed. Do not be afraid. When the Spirit shows you areas of sin, it is not to condemn you, but to cleanse you.
– Francis Frangipane
The Heart | Sin
The focus of Satan’s efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.
– Sam Storms
Sin | Deception
Satan has access to the domain of darkness, but he can only occupy those areas where mankind, through sin, has allowed him.
– Francis Frangipane
Satan | Sin
Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
– Watchman Nee
Sin | The Holy Spirit | Conviction
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
– Philip Yancey
Sin
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
– Harry Ironside
Good and Evil | Sin
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Cheerfulness | Blessings
There are three things which the true Christian desires in respect to sin: Justification, that it may not condemn; sanctification, that it may not rein; and glorification, that it may not be.
– Richard Cecil
Sin | Justification | Sanctification | Glorification
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
– Thomas Manton
Sin | Boasting
It is only deliberate, willful sin that has not been confessed and forgiven that makes us feel that God has forsaken us, for that sin causes Him to hide His face from us.
– Alan Redpath
Sin | Confession