Quotes About Blessings

Be thankful for the smallest blessing," Thomas à Kempis had written, "and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God." Father

When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places.

In Isaiah, God said, 'I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord . . .' Times of darkness can be some of the best times.

Yet in all this, she was to trust God—and more than that, yes, truly more than that, she was to thank him.

Thank you, God, for second chances

Peace . . . and plenty . . . graciously provided by God who created us for himself, and who loves each of us devoutly, devotedly, steadfastly, forever.

And, as Mr. Shakespeare said, 'thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks'!

What God has given us," Taylor had written, "is all we need; we require nothing more. It is not a question of large supplies—it is a question of the presence of the Lord.

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things.

Remember our good verse from Jeremiah, 'I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Thank you God for so many dreams coming true. Thank you for everything. Even confusion and hard decisions.

Then he prayed for (...) and all the rest who made up his world.

Then he turned and went home to the yellow house where he had been given everything and more, none of it especially deserved.

In some instances we saw how God had changed our requests, transformed our desires, and then given us things that we didn't know we wanted until he placed them in our hands.

Dear Lord, we thank you for this day, good food, better friends, and the fact that Ida Belle and I have outlived so many people we didn't like.

My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.

Little is much, If love abides

Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world.

May your troubles be less And your blessings be more And nothing but happiness Come through your door. Irish blessing

to start thanking God for it now, before you ever see a thing. In all things give thanks." She grinned.

1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal. Irish saying There's no denying the fact that my grandpa Aengus shaped the way I look at life. The man had a saying for everything. If I fell and scraped my knee, he mended it with an Irish proverb: "For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile." If I woke up with a head cold, he had an Irish

Sex doesn't help you to get to know a guy. It clouds your judgment and often causes unmarried couples to think they have more in common than they really do. If they do marry, their lack of compatibility often comes to the surface later....One of the blessings of purity is that it brings such faults to the surface sooner rather than later.