Be A Blessing Quotes

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

I have been blessed to be a blessing.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.

Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.

I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.

Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.