#mercies

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#gratitude #happiness #joy #richelle #richelle-goodrich

...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#humility #tender-mercies #love

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#asleep #be thankful #eyes #fallen #forgets

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#carry #death #entry #fair #fear

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. ↗

— David Brainerd

#beheld #deplorable #eye #father #god

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that. ↗

— Dianne Wiest

#indie #mercies #you

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bound #call #disguises #evil #good