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1 " Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said. "
― Shane Claiborne , The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
2 " Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Karen Memory (Karen Memory, #1)
3 " Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and ability are inseparable from wealth: let them observe that Cincinnatus, the one man in whom Rome reposed all her hope of survival, was at that moment working a little three-acre farm (now known as Quinctian meadows) west of the Tiber, just opposite the spot where the shipyards are today. A mission from the city found him at work on his land - digging a ditch, maybe, or ploughing. Greetings were exchanged, and he was asked - with a prayer for God's blessing on himself and his country - to put on his toga and hear the Senate's instructions. This naturally surprised him, and, asking if all were well, he told his wife Racilia to run to their cottage and fetch his toga. The toga was brought, and wiping the grimy sweat from his hands and face he put it on; at once the envoys from the city saluted him, with congratulations, as Dictator, invited him to enter Rome, and informed him of the terrible danger of Minucius's army. "
― Livy , The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
4 " Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married. "
5 " Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you. "
6 " The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. "
7 " Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers. "
