Blessing Quotes
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.
Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.
Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.
The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.
Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
My schedule has not calmed down, but I'm definitely not so devastated as I used to be. Definitely cooler now. A lot of blessings have fallen into my lap, and I'm very thankful to receive all of them.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.
