Be A Blessing Quotes
Knowing that we should love is not enough. But when knowledge is applied through service, love can secure for us the blessings of heaven.
Where are you looking at blessing as bondage, something you GET to do as something you've GOT to do?
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.
The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.
I think I'm a dime, I think I'm amazing, I think I'm blessed and a blessing to whoever gets me next. I think that person has to understand that because that's the way I'm going to treat them as well.
Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.
The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.
I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.
Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.
A search of one's life and soul will reveal the hand of God. The outpouring of his blessings come with our afflictions, not in spite of them. Afflictions be praised!
Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.
Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.
Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.
Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.
While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.
... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.
Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.
Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.