Quotes About Blessings

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

This, by the ministries of prayer, The loneliest life with blessings crowds, Can consecrate each petty care, Make angels' ladders out of clouds.

We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.

Reach up (to accept blessings). Bend down (to respect humbly). Reach out (to give freely).

Clouds or no clouds, life is grand — be grateful for all the varieties of weather in your life.

Here's to a long life and a merry one A quick death and an easy one A pretty girl and an honest one A cold beer and another one!

Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year-round for the gifts you receive.

Even if you have countless blessings, it's good to count them anyway.

Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

How many troubles have they witnessed! Troubles, — ah, but how many mercies too! Think of THESE. Troubles and mercies, — which were most in number in the ten years passed? You can count your troubles, can you count your blessings? Are you willing, in the next ten years, to make this exchange: to let the troubles of the past ten years be the measure of your mercies in the next ten years; and to let the mercies of the past ten years be the measure of your troubles in coming ten?

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.

There is plenty of happiness in this life if we only knew it: and one way to find it is, when we have got the old rheumatism to thank Heaven that it ain't the old gout.

Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...?

Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

Grief is processing what's been taken from you, what's still within you, and all the blessings and memories left behind by the one you're grieving.

...and mighty proud I am, and ought to be thankful to God Almighty that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

If you want to be happy, be grateful.

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a home... I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.

Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell; while others may go hungry, we're eating very well.

Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I refuse to speculate.