Abundance

Famous quotes containing the word abundance:

“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:5.

The third of the Beatitudes, from the Sermon on the Mount. The words recall those in Proverbs 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.” In his Notebooks, the author Samuel Butler wrote, “I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.” (Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 220, 1951)

“The family that perseveres in good works will surely have an abundance of blessings.”
—Chinese proverb.

“What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)