Quotes About Favor From God

#1. 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

#2. If you work, you will find favor from God and you will become a rich man

Sunday Adelaja

#3. When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Max Lucado

#4. 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

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

Timothy Keller

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Joel Osteen

#14. 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

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

Bill Hybels

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. 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

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

Joel Osteen

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

Toba Beta

#22. That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.

Desmond Tutu

#24. Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'

Martha Beck

#25. 11 For the LORD God is j a sun and g shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. k No good thing does he withhold from those who l walk uprightly.

Anonymous

#26. For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ([6]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

Anonymous

#27. Instead of us to rely on the strength and ability God has given us we hope for favor and help from God and people then do nothing.

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Through God's grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn't empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace (favor, kindness, ability) to bear it.

Jennifer Rothschild

#29. God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.

Francis De Sales

#30. Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.

Bill Hybels

#31. The moment we came into covenant relationship with God, His goodness was permanently pointed in our direction. God's favor is toward us, not away from us.

Kynan Bridges

#32. 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

#33. My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

Gerrit Smith

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Diana Gabaldon

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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

Joyce Meyer

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Paul Silway

#62. 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

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

Abraham Lincoln

#64. 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

#65. 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

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

Henri Rousseau

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

Ikechukwu Joseph

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

David Eagleman

#71. 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

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

Oswald Chambers

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

Joel Osteen

#74. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#76. 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