Quotes About Blessings

God's gifts are the best gifts you will ever receive. Don't put them away in a closet or drawer. Use them every day. Put them on. Wear them. p. 196

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

Suppose for a moment that God began taking from us the many things for which we have failed to give thanks. Which of our limbs and faculties would be left? Would I still have my hands and my mind? And what about loved ones? If God were to take from me all those persons and things for which I have not given thanks, who or what would be left of me?

May all your stories be glad ones, and your roads be smooth and short.

I gave a silent prayer of thanks that I didn't seem to be lousy. I had probably been too filthy for any self-respecting louse to take up residence.

I have everything I prayed for. I know most would condemn me and think I've lost my soul, but I know in my heart that I have not. What can be more precious than to find true love.

Life is a gift. Going to church is like sending a thank-you card.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

If my heart is ever going to be freed of grumbling and ruled by gratitude, I need your grace: grace to remember, grace to see, grace that produces a heart of humble joy.

He graces you with good things because he is good, not because you are.

Our blessings are never payment for the good we've done, and our trials are never punishment for the wrongs we've done. This cause-and-effect equation is always bad spiritual math.

The DNA of joy is gratitude.

My Savior has been with me, for me, and in me, and he works to take very bad things and produce through them very, very good things.

In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Nuestras bendiciones nunca son el pago por el bien que hemos hecho, y nuestras pruebas nunca son un castigo por los males que hemos cometido.

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

Corporate worship is designed to make you thankful, not just for possessions and accomplishments, but for what you've been given in Christ.

the way to defeat the dangerous potential of complaint is not by silence but by praise. The more you commit yourself to counting your blessings, the more you will have eyes to see specific blessings in your life.

Here is suffering's paradox: the very things we would do anything to avoid, the very things that confront our understanding of who we are, and the very things that cause us the most pain become the very things that usher into our lives the blessings of the help, hope, peace, and rest that we all long to experience.

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness' and only to him was the land 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was home. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery." - Chief Standing River of the Lakota