Divine Generosity Quotes

God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally in keeping with His generous character... Exorbitant. Excessive. Extravagant in grace after grace. Of all the dazzling discoveries and ecstatic pleasures heaven will hold for us, the potential of seeing Scrappy would be pure whimsy-utterly, joyfully, surprisingly superfluous... Heaven is going to be a place that will refract and reflect in as many ways as possible the goodness and joy of our great God, who delights in lavishing love on His children.

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

God asks little, but He gives much.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

The newspaper people think we should still be back in the trash.... They really think Christians ought to be shabby, tacky, crummy, worthless people because we threaten them when we have things as nice as they have.... I’m excessive. Dear Lord, I’m excessive.... God is a great God. He deserves my best.

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.