Blessing Quotes
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
William Gurnall
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
Jane Austen
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.
L. Tom Perry
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People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.
Nirmala Srivastava
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You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
Adrian Rogers
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For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.
John Tillotson
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We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Shigeru Yoshida
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
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When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.
Carson Kressley
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The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.
William Arthur Ward
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
William Dean Howells
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
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You dare not lift your hands to place God’s name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace.
Edmund Clowney
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I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.
Ransom Riggs
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
William Gurnall
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Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.
Bahá'u'lláh
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I mean we're all guilty of getting sidetracked or getting taken away from our loved ones. Whether we believe it or not, or care to admit it or not, it's just a product of this lifestyle. That's a big reason why I've always called this the blessing and the curse.
Chuck Ragan
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I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.
Tom Vilsack
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My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
Christina Aguilera
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Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him.
Gerhard Tersteegen
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Bram Stoker
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God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
Randy Alcorn