Quotes About Blessings

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.

I'm thankful for all the support I've received over the years.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.

I have the love and blessings of Indians and my family and I have faith in my own hard work and training. That is all I need.

The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.

My heavenly bank, my heavenly bank, The house of God's treasure and store. I have plenty in here; I'm a real millionaire.

Me doy cuenta que Dios nunca puede bendecirnos si somos duros de corazón, si somos criticones, o si no perdonamos. Esto impedirá la fe más rápido que cualquier otra cosa.

Asia.1 Everything in that part of the world is beautiful and stately, and the earth produces gold and gemstones. The middle of the world is also there. Just as the earth in that region is more beautiful and better in all ways than other places, so too the people there are most endowed with all blessings: wisdom and strength, beauty, and every kind of skill.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

In the Church, we can give expression to every ability, every righteous desire, every thoughtful impulse. Whether a volunteer, father, home teacher, bishop, or neighbor, whether a visiting teacher, mother, homemaker, or friend—there is ample opportunity to give our all. And as we give, we find that 'sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven!' (Hymns, no. 147) And in the end, we learn it was no sacrifice at all.

Prayers, also, are of avail to procure those things which He foreknew that He would grant to those who offered them.

Real and secure felicity is the peculiar possession of those who worship that God by whom alone it can be conferred.

You never know what the wind will blow your way, baby; you've just got to be prepared to dance to the music God provides.

Be thoughtful and strategic, but also be open to blessings arriving in unexpected forms.

And now, until we meet again, may the blessings of Asgard be showered upon you!

Drop out of the "clean-plate club." "Lord, help me to eat more heartily at Your table and more sparingly at mine!" —Derl Keefer