Blessing Quotes

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.

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.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

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.

Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

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

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

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

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

The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.

The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.