Favors Quotes - Page 15

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

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

Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

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.

to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

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

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.