It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.