Quote#God & Faith
Many favors which God giveth us ravel out for want of hemming,…
Quote byThomas Fuller · 1608–1661
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 579.
English (original)
Many favors which God giveth us ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness; for though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them.
— Thomas Fuller
More from Thomas Fuller
Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.
Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat.
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind
He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.