Quotations from Scripture and Other Writings on (Super)abundance
Bible Quotes on (super)abundance
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it; it was beyond measure.
Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything.
O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
[Hezekiah] commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, so that they might devote themselves to the law of the Lord. As soon as the word spread, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.
Surely God is great, and we do not know him;
the number of his years is unsearchable.
For he draws up the drops of water;
he distils his mist in rain,
which the skies pour down
and drop upon mortals abundantly.
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his pavilion?
See, he scatters his lightning around him
and covers the roots of the sea.
For by these he governs peoples;
he gives food in abundance.
Rain in abundance, O God, you showered abroad;
You restored your heritage when it languished;
Your flock found a dwelling in it;
in your goodness, O God, You provided for the needy.
You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use,
to bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the human heart, and oil to make the face shine, and bread to strengthen the human heart.
They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them. … He split rocks open in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep. He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers. … he rained down on them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven. Mortals ate of the bread of angels; he sent them food in abundance. …he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
The LORD passed before [Moses} and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house,
I will bow down towards your holy temple in awe of you.
But the meek shall inherit the land, and delight in abundant prosperity.
Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me? Those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life, there is no price one can give to God for it. For the ransom of life is costly, and can never suffice, that one should live on forever and never see the grave.
Happy are those who fear the LORD, who greatly delight in his commandments. … Wealth and riches are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever. …They have distributed freely, they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
but everyone who is hasty comes only to want.
The Lord is exalted, he dwells on high; he filled Zion with justice and righteousness;
he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
I am going to bring it recovery and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first. I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me. And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.
When the table was set for me and an abundance of food placed before me, I said to my son Tobias, ‘Go, my child, and bring whatever poor person you may find of our people among the exiles in Nineveh, who is wholeheartedly mindful of God, and he shall eat together with me. I will wait for you, until you come back.’
On the third day you commanded the waters to be gathered together in a seventh part of the earth; six parts you dried up and kept so that some of them might be planted and cultivated and be of service before you. For your word went forth, and at once the work was done. Immediately fruit came forth in endless abundance and of varied appeal to the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of inexpressible fragrance. These were made on the third day.
[but what good is it to us …] that a paradise shall be revealed, whose fruit remains unspoiled and in which are abundance and healing, but we shall not enter it?
The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
And he said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’
For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.
For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.’
Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and he divided the two fish among them all. And all ate and were filled; and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the LORD of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the one man’s trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many… but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more…
I do not mean that there should be relief for others and pressure on you, but it is a question of a fair balance between your present abundance and their need,…
The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.
Quotes on (Super)abundance
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature — inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe, and faithfully watch and wait the reappearance of everything that melts and fades and dies about us, feeling sure that its next appearance will be better and more beautiful than the last.
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
Enough is abundance to the wise.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
From abundance springs satiety.
The enemy takes what isn’t his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?
May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.
Live from abundance;
Utilize with economy;
Share in advance.
Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend…when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present (love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure) the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
It is not only my right and my privilege to walk in the abundance God has for me, it is my responsibility…just as it is my responsibility to live the rest of my truth.
You can’t predict, you can prepare. Experience the power of making decisions based on security instead of worry, readiness instead of reluctance, abundance instead of lack.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Summer’s keynote is abundance. … This fact of nature is in sharp contrast to human nature, which seems to regard perpetual scarcity as the law of life. … The irony, often tragic, is that by embracing the scarcity assumption, we create the very scarcities we fear. … We create scarcity by fearfully accepting it as law and by competing with others for resources.
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives.
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel.
When I think about creating abundance, it’s not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it’s about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It’s an economic force, it’s a technical force. It’s a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.
There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, ‘There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough.’ The truth is that there’s more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That’s the truth.
Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
The sea all water, yet receives rain still,
And in abundance addeth to his store,
So thou being rich in will add to thy will
One will of mine to make thy large will more.
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
I don’t believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
