Quotes About Blessings

All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

Any marnin' th' good Lord lets'ee open your eyes, that's a day he's got somethin' f'r ye t' do.

He who would be blest, let him scatter blessings.

The honeysuckle made the People particularly happy, since it attracted holy hummingbirds, and as long as hummingbirds hovered nearby, things would be all right.

Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else.

A vida não tece apenas uma teia de perdas, mas nos proporciona uma sucessão de ganhos.

This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

Chocolate and wine and fun weekend are delightful gifts indeed, and God is glorified when we partake with joy and gratitude. But viewing these blessings as necessities is self-indulgent. If we demand them as rights, they will enslave us, evaporating the delight and glory they were meant to convey. No one actually needs a spa day or wine or chocolate or even a vacation.

God ever does for us more abundantly than we can ask or think. Israel implores only the destruction of the serpents. God undoes their poisonous work.

The years pass in review before me. Thank God for the dear wife who three years ago persuaded me that I was a Christian more than a Congregationalist. The years have not been unfruitful. The work has been, oh! so little, and the harvest so great!

You deserve to have a prosperous and abundant life!

Even when bad things happen, He can use them for good.

You can never out-give God. Don't ever forget that.

I will thank Him for all that He has given me, not curse Him for all that I've lost.

One thing I can't do is walk around with a long face anymore—the Lord has taken that away." In

Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring ... while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German woman gaping. 'Are all of these your children?' the woman asked. 'From one wife?' 'Yes, God has blessed me with all these children,' the rabbi replied. 'Haven't you heard about the population problem?'the woman sniffed. 'How many more children do you want to have?' Rabbi Teller paused and looked the woman in the eye: 'About 6 million,' he said.

I've discovered that the more love and joy I pour into others, the more I experience in my own life.