Quotes About Blessings

I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that's what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.

Sweet things happen. They still do.

When you're a good person, good things happen to you.

It's OK to have nice things happen to you - you should embrace that.

When I'm happy good things happen.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God's children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The 'many mansions' are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

I do practice active gratitude. In my thoughts, actions words I am deeply grateful for what life has given me.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

Love she had found, had a strange way of multiplying. Doubling, trebling itself, so that, as each child arrived, there was always more than enough to go around.

Dear Heavenly Father, this item has brought me so many blessings, and now, I no longer have need of it. Please send me someone who will cherish this item as I have cherished it, and may it bless them as richly as it has blessed me. May this item fulfill a specific need for a specific individual, and may it continue to bless them for many years. Thank you!

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism. The two mutually augment one another, and they are fed from the same source.

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep', it is good to have someone to lean on from time to time, and in that respect this agnostic has been blessed by the gods. I still value my solitude, but it is also nice to have someone tucking me into bed at night.

I have difficulty in doing justice to momentous events, the wars of nations, the politics of power; I am more at ease with the dew of the morning, the sensuous delights of the day, the silent blessings of the night, the joys and sorrows of children, the strivings of ordinary folk, and of course, the ridiculous situations in which we sometimes find ourselves.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.