Quotes About Blessings

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

appreciation begets abundance.

We know that appreciation begets abundance.

Let us pile up our thanks like a heap of flowers on a blanket. We will each take a corner and toss it high into the sky. And so our thanks should be as rich as the gifts of the world that shower down upon us

and we stand there together, grateful in the rain of blessings.

the Thanksgiving Address was spoken to greet the day: "Let us put our minds together as one and send greetings and thanks to our Mother Earth, who sustains our lives with her many gifts.

When they abandoned gratitude, the gifts abandoned them.

Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.

It is said that only humans have the capacity for gratitude. This is among our gifts.

Even people who counted their blessings never counted them in the morning. For one thing, there wasn't time.

The three most important powers are Heaven, Earth and Man. The three luminaries are the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Opportunities given by Heaven are not equal to the advantages afforded by Earth, while the advantages of Earth do not match the blessings that come from harmony among men

Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother's love.

Once the boat reaches its destination, Young-sook and the other women take a few moments to make offerings of rice and rice wine to the Dragon Sea God and pray for an abundant harvest, a safe return, and peace of mind.

I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way.

The tricky part for me is remembering to give God all the glory and keep none for myself. That's why "we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."8 Boaz took no credit for his kindness, nor did Ruth. Even Naomi, who at first blessed the landowner, praised God when she learned the man's name. We can follow her fine example, giving God the credit for "every good and perfect gift."9

and he began to speak, praising God. Luke 1:64 He didn't ask God why he'd been silenced, nor did he bemoan the many conversations he'd missed. Instead, Zechariah "shouted out praises to God

And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

What can the gods give me?" His brows twitched up in an expression of remarkably disingenuous goodwill. "Why, work, sweet Ista!

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.