Blessing Quotes

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof.