God Favor Quotes

#1. We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

Bill Johnson

#2. The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.

Todd Bentley

#3. Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind.

Matthew Henry

#4. What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

Thomas Brooks

#5. Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God.

Tullian Tchividjian

#6. I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

Hezekiah Walker

#7. Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#8. While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#9. Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.

Joyce Meyer

#11. God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life that is much bigger than you can imagine.

Michele Woolley

#12. In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

Voltaire

#13. You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed.
(quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)

Luc Ferry

#15. If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

Alexander Carson

#16. Have you noticed that those who murder in the thousands invariably claim divine favor while those who kill on a far more modest scale, myself included, know in our hearts that God weeps for our sins?

Sara Poole

#17. To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Plautus

#18. To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.

Meir Soloveichik

#19. Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away.

Michele Woolley

#20. I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others ... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.

Luke Benward

#21. Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#22. If God makes man in His image, we all return the favor.

Diana Gabaldon

#23. The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#24. Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

Timothy Keller

#25. Being God is not all it's cracked up to be, and it's not as easy as one would think it would be. You'd think the deck would be really stacked in your favor as God, but of course, I've run into some pretty big obstacles and problems.

Misha Collins

#26. When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

Matthew Henry

#27. My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

Tullian Tchividjian

#28. God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

Charles R. Swindoll

#29. When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,
you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Toba Beta

#30. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#31. Broad shoulders fit snugly under his white shirt, and taut muscles flex in his arm as he grips a tray. He's not a muscle-bound freak though, thank God. I don't like that "I have boulders in my biceps" look that a lot of guys seem to favor these days.

Siobhan Davis

#32. Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

Brent L. Top

#33. God's blessing is like a coin that has two sides, favor and trials.

Sunday Adelaja

#34. We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#35. Wealth is no mark of God's favor. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure.

J.C. Ryle

#36. Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

Richard Sibbes

#37. We need to learn and remind ourselves every day that God's favor - His blessings and answers to prayer - comes to us not on the basis of our works, but on the basis of the infinite merit of Jesus Christ. - Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Everyday Life

Matt Perman

#38. Every time God gives you prosperity and favor to attain His goals and you do not use it, the devil will lead you in another way

Sunday Adelaja

#39. I'm the head and not the tail. I'm above and not below. I will find favor with man and God. I was created in the image of God to do good things and to love people.

Brenda Warner

#40. Knowing God is a matter of grace. It is a relationship in which the initiative throughout is with God - as it must be, since God is so completely above us and we have so completely forfeited all claim on his favor by our sins.

J.I. Packer

#41. Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

Joel Osteen

#42. You have seeds of greatness in you! I believe our lives as Christians should be the most exciting because we have the favor and blessings of God on our side!

Victoria Osteen

#43. Paul presents the Good News: Salvation is available to all, regardless of a person's identity, sin, or heritage. We are saved by grace (unearned, undeserved favor from God) through faith (complete trust) in Christ and his finished work. Through him we can stand before God justified, not guilty

Anonymous

#44. Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

Ellen G. White

#45. 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

#46. We are all blessed, but there are people who have special favor and grace with God

Sunday Adelaja

#47. A man whose heart is stayed upon God is just the same in the hour of his most afflicting trials and most discouraging surroundings as when he was in prosperity, when the light and favor of God seemed to be upon him.

Ellen G. White

#48. The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.

Pat Conroy

#49. God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

Publilius Syrus

#50. Am I willing to give up my lofty ideas of success - even the "success" of serving God in great and visible ways - and instead content myself to serve in the mundane, to be largely invisible, and to meet the needs of those who can't return the favor?

Anonymous

#51. Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.

Joyce Meyer

#52. Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

David Eagleman

#53. God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen

#54. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers

#55. Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

Joel Osteen

#56. Grace ... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.

Jerry Bridges

#57. God's blessings causes the other person to pay attention to you and favor you

Sunday Adelaja

#58. If there is a God, he's a son of a bitch. If he wanted to do us a favor he would have made raw carrots and bean sprouts as appealing as a fatty, fried sandwich and a Marlboro.

Marshall Thornton

#59. A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.

Geraldine Brooks

#60. Luther labeled as theologies of glory all distortions of the Gospel that would promise the Christian elements of glory in this life if he will perfect or offer spiritual things that deserve God's favor.

Steven A. Hein

#61. Of preparing for defeat, prepare for victory. Prepare for increase. Prepare for God's favor. You have to set the tone at the start of each day.

Joel Osteen

#62. Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.

Mark Batterson

#63. Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#64. Now am I trying to win the favor of men, or of God? Do I seek to please men? If I were still seeking popularity with men, I should not be a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah). GALATIANS 1:10

Joyce Meyer

#65. To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

J.I. Packer

#66. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

Joyce Meyer

#67. When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

Max Lucado

#68. The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.

Henry Suso

#69. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Henry Ward Beecher

#70. God worked in their lives in proportion to the degree of the koinonia, the quality of love between believers. Their favor with God flowed largely from his pleasure of their depth of fellowship.

John Franklin

#71. Giving respect is an obligation, not a favor; it is an act of maturity, birthed in a profound understanding of God's good grace.

Gary L. Thomas

#72. 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. Besides,

John Calvin

#73. Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

Ellen G. White

#74. You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think.

Michele Woolley

#75. People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Desmond Tutu

#76. As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground,
so does hand should do what it can to earn miracles.

Toba Beta

#77. God's favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God's goodness to defeat Satan's evil nature.

Sunday Adelaja

#78. Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

Roger Ebert

#79. Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

Dwight L. Moody

#80. 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish for us the work of our hands - establish the work of our hands! s

Anonymous

#81. One touch of His (God's) favor can put you fifty years ahead of where you thought you'd be.

Joel Osteen

#82. I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

John Wooden

#83. God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

Bill Hybels

#84. No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren't the ticket to earning God's favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Bill Courtney

#85. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Salmon P. Chase

#86. What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.

Paul Gitwaza

#88. At this very moment, God's working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!

Joel Osteen

#89. Learn to speak God's favor over every area of your life. Remember, the more favor-minded you are, the more of God's favor you're going to experience.

Joel Osteen

#90. Why would God create a defective product? Why would a God who gave me free will require any certain belief? Why would a God powerful enough to create the universe need me to justify His existence? Why would He want me seeking favor with Him to manipulate my entrance to some afterlife?

David W. Earle

#91. The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

Francois Fenelon

#92. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#93. By His grace, God has already done everything to provide salvation. Your part is simply to believe and receive.

Paul Silway

#94. God our Father, Lord and Savior, thank you for your love and favor, bless this food and drink we pray, and Irene who shares with me today. Amen.

Jan Karon

#95. And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation] ... I invoke ... the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Abraham Lincoln

#96. Joshua 23:10 provides my favorite image of God's favor. It says, "One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you." How can a single warrior with one sword take down a thousand armed enemies? Because God fights for him!

Kevin Myers

#97. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

David Platt

#98. God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

Henri Rousseau

#99. They imprisoned Joseph to cage his abilities but God empowered him to manifest his potentials

Ikechukwu Joseph

#100. I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.

Stacey Lee