quotes about Blessing
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We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.
-- A. B. Simpson -
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
-- A. B. Simpson -
You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
-- A. B. Simpson -
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A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
-- A. P. Herbert -
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
-- A. R. Rahman -
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life†(Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,†New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
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I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!
-- Abd-ar-Rahman III -
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
-- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
-- Abigail Adams -
The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.
-- Abraham H. Cannon -
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
-- Abraham Maslow -
It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
-- Abu Bakr -
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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
-- Adam ZagajewskiSource : Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.
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Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward
-- Adolf Hitler -
In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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As Fuehrer of the German people and Chancellor of the Reich, I can thank God at this moment that he has so wonderfully blessed us in our hard struggle for what is our right, and beg Him that we and all other nations may find the right way, so that not only the German people but all Europe may once more be granted the blessing of peace.
-- Adolf Hitler -
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
-- Adoniram Judson -
You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
-- Adrian Rogers -
It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.
-- African Spir -
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It's bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.
-- Akshay KumarSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.
-- Al Jarreau -
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To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
-- Alan Keyes -
We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
-- Alan Redpath -
Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.
-- Alan Redpath -
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There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!
-- Alan Redpath -
Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.
-- Alan Robinson -
The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.
-- Alanus de Rupe -
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
-- Albert Camus -
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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
-- Albrecht Durer -
Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.
-- Aldo Leopold -
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
-- Alex KapranosSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry;
-- Alexander Hamilton -
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?
-- Alexander MacLaren -
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
-- Alexander Pope -
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
-- Alexander Pope -
To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
-- Alfred Adler -
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Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
-- Alfred Armand MontapertSource : Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.
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Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.
-- Allan Bloom -
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
-- Alonzo MourningSource : "Alonzo Mourning: The Edge of Sports Interview". Interview with Dave Zirin, bleacherreport.com. January 27, 2009.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
-- Amelia EarhartSource : "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.
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Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.
-- Amit Ray -
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.
-- Amit RaySource : "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.
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Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
-- Amit Ray -
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
-- Amy CarmichaelSource : Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.56, CLC Publications
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Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.
-- Amy Purdy -
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.
-- Andrew Jackson -
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
-- Andrew JacksonSource : Andrew Jackson, Sam B. Smith, Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley, Harold D. Moser (1996). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824”, p.399, Univ. of Tennessee Press
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But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
-- Andrew JacksonSource : Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436
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War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
-- Andrew Jackson -
You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable
-- Andrew McMahon -
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Blessings are better than miracles. If you live your life from one miracle to the next, you will live from crisis to crisis. It's better to be blessed with good health than to always need divine healing. God's will is for us to walk in blessing.
-- Andrew Wommack -
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
-- Andrew Young -
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.
-- Anish Kapoor -
People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
-- Ann Aguirre -
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It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldn’t obsessively reread what you’d written after you’d sent it. You couldn’t attempt to un-send it. Once you’d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what you’d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.
-- Ann Brashares -
The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.
-- Ann M. Dibb -
My kids don't drink and don't smoke. For me, that's a great blessing.
-- Ann Romney -
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
-- Ann Voskamp -
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
-- Ann VoskampSource : FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Jul 08, 2012
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I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
-- Anna SewardSource : Anna SEWARD (1799). “Original Sonnets, on various subjects; and Odes paraphrased from Horace, by Anna Seward. Second edition”, p.14
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I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.
-- Anne Bronte -
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...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his...
-- Anne Fortier -
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
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Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
-- Anne Lamott -
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
-- Anne Lamott -
The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
-- Anne Lamott -
To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.
-- Anne PerrySource : Anne Perry (2013). “Tathea”, p.105, Open Road Media
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I want to try and stay focused on the next game. I'm pretty good at doing that, but to be there right now, it has been a blessing up to this point. Being here in Montreal and being healthy and playing with this group of guys.
-- Anthony Calvillo -
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.
-- Ariel Dorfman -
Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.
-- Ariphron -