Quotes About Blessings

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.