Blessing Quote by John Owen Download Open image “We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.” — John Owen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blessing Blessings Bread Daily bread Ought Our daily bread Prayer Praying
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour,… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we are, in a measure, shutting tomorrow out of our prayer. We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's bread. They thrive best, and get most out of life, who live in the living present. They pray best who pray for… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share
“This is why in the Lord’s Prayer we don’t get to the petition for our daily bread and needs until we have spent time… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“True prayers are born of present trials and present needs. Bread for today is bread enough. Bread given for today is the strongest sort of pledge that there will be bread tomorrow. Victory today is the assurance of victory tomorrow. Our prayers need to be focused upon the present. We must trust God today, and leave the morrow entirely with… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share
Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“This is how you should pray. “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored. May your kingdom come. May what you want to… — Roger Quy Copy Share Image
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work… — John Owen Copy Share
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever. — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
How can we possibly believe the promises concerning Heaven, immortality, and glory, when we do not believe the promises concerning our present life? And how can we be trusted when we say we believe these promises but make no effort to experience them ourselves? It is just here that men deceive themselves. It is not that they do not want… — John Owen Copy Share
It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Life is all about experiences and being able to work with good people is a blessing. — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Being of Indian heritage is a challenge - and it's a blessing as well sometimes - because being good isn't good enough. You have… — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share
Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
