Quotes About Blessings

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

Sometimes the most important things in life are the things we take for granted.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

Let none with scorn a suppliant meet, Or from the door untended spurn A dog; an outcast kindly treat; And so thou shalt be blest in turn.

Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith hath sanctified.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

So which of your Lord's favors do you two deny? You and I are absent, you and I are present and absent. So which of your Lord's favors do you two deny?

With each day, I give thanks for the blessings of life—the blessings of another day and the chance to do something with it. Something good. Something significant. Something helpful. No matter how small it might seem. I want to keep making a difference.

Wo Gott als Gott erkannt wird, dort will er als erstes den Dank seiner Geschöpfe.

Nicht unsere ausgereckte Bettlerhand, sondern das, womit Gott sie füllt, darauf kommt's an. Und das heißt eben, zunächst nicht wir und unser Tun, sondern zunächst Gott und Gottes Tun.

Dem Dankbaren wird alles zum Geschenk, weil er weiß, daß es für ihn überhaupt kein verdientes Gut gibt.

Wir hindern Gott, uns die großen geistlichen Gaben, die er für uns bereit hat, zu schenken, weil wir für die täglichen Gaben nicht danken.

Man soll Gott in dem finden und lieben, was er uns gerade gibt.

Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*

in the smallest things as well as the greatest, God gives the hundredfold in this life to those souls who leave everything for love of Him.212

It seems to me that if a little flower could speak, it would tell simply what God has done for it without trying to hide its blessings

How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I've received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall only know in heaven.

Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count themselves lucky! It's full enough of good things as it is, far more than they usually get.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

It is such a privilege to have people who continue each day to bless us with their love and prayer. These inner friends of the heart confer on us inestimable gifts.

The more we recognize our found blessings, the more they increase around us.

When you celebrate, you are taking time to recognize, to open your eyes and behold in your life the quiet miracles and gifts that seek no attention; yet each day they nourish, shelter, and animate your life.

Gratitude is not something we give to God because he wants to make sure we know how much trouble he went to over us. Gratitude is the gift God gives us that enables us to be blessed by all his other gifts, the way our taste buds enable us to enjoy the gift of food. Without gratitude, our lives degenerate into envy, dissatisfaction, and complaints, taking what we have for granted and always wanting more.

Slothful and lazy souls never obtain one view of this glory. The "lion in the road" deters them from attempting it (Prov 26:13).58 Being carnal, they abhor all diligence in the use of spiritual means, such as prayer and meditation, which to them are uneasy, unpleasant, and difficult. But for others, this way shares in the blessings of the promised destination. The means of obtaining a view of the glory of Christ are of the same kind and pleasantness of the view itself.