Blessings

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

— John Calvin

Blessings of Trials

The grand design of God in all the afflictions that befall his people is to bring them nearer and closer to himself.

— Thomas Brooks

To bless God for mercies is the way to increase them; to bless Him for miseries is the way to remove them.

— William Dyer

Temporal blessings are not definite marks of divine favor, since God gives them to the unworthy, and to the wicked, as well as to the righteous.

— C. H. Spurgeon