Blessing Quotes

• I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Love
  • Blessing
  • Caring

• Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Depression

• What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Love
  • Books
  • Blessing

• Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

  

  William Martin
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Mistake

• Life is really a blessing to be able to do what you love everyday, to learn about yourself. For me it's been about becoming a woman, and I've really enjoyed that experience.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Able

• The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • World
  • Peace
  • Inspire

• That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Read
  • Blessing

• Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Experience
  • Goal
  • Blessing

• If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

  

  James Timothy Shaw
  • Thinking
  • Talking
  • Blessing

• 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.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Friend
  • Taken
  • Failing

• No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Sin
  • Found
  • Sorrow

• It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Mistake
  • Burden
  • Effect

• And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Heart
  • Enjoy
  • Prepared

• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  

  Cecil O. Samuelson
  • Attention
  • Responsibility
  • Effort

• We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Enough

• From time to time, ask yourself these questions: "Am I ready to meet my Maker?" "Am I worthy of all the blessings He has in store for His faithful children?" "Have I received my endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple?" "Have I remained faithful to my covenants?" "Have I qualified for the greatest of all God's blessings-the blessing of eternal life."

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Blessing
  • Faithful

• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Country
  • Lying
  • Sacrifice

• With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Brain
  • Obstacles
  • Manage

• And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

  

  Celia Rivenbark
  • Blessing
  • Grateful
  • Tough

• The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mother
  • Memory
  • Blessing

• Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Talent
  • Sin
  • Blessing

• God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.

  

  Bonar Law
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Meditation

• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Past
  • Perfection

• The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Blessing

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