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Quotes About Blessed

I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.
~ Hank Stram
I have been very lucky - all the jobs I've done have been with lovely people. In fact, I've been on many where I've just laughed uncontrollably the whole time.
~ Lucy Davis
Jesus died with nothing at all and preached that the poor are blessed. He condemned those who have riches and are content that others remain poor.
~ Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Blessed with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto, "In God is our trust."
~ Francis Scott Key
Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
~ Frank Dane
There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child." Page 193
~ Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child.
~ Brandon Sanderson
They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Blessed are not the enlightened whose every question has been answered and who are delighted with their own sublime insight, the mature and ripe ones whose one remaining action is to fall from the tree. Blessed, rather, are the chased, the harassed who must daily stand before my enigmas and cannot solve them.
~ Brennan Manning
blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe" (John 20:29).
~ Brennan Manning
In most testimonies the good news is only a small part of the story, obscured by our achieving and overcoming. In Brennan's story, and in mine, the good news is the entire story, which blessedly leaves us with nothing to prove or protect.
~ Brennan Manning
We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Thirdly, you have to celebrate your chosenness constantly. This means saying 'thank you' to God for having chosen you, and 'thank you' to all who remind you of your chosenness. Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are not an 'accident', but a divine choice.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Jesus goes up onto the mountain, gathers his disciples around him, and says: "How blessed are the poor, the gentle, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for uprightness, the merciful, the pure of heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness." These words present a portrait of the child of God. It is a self-portrait of Jesus, the Beloved Son.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
As those who are chosen, blessed, broken and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The movement of God's Spirit is very gentle, very soft – and hidden. It does not seek attention. But that movement is also very persistent, strong and deep. It changes our hearts radically. The faithful discipline of prayer reveals to you that you are the blessed one and gives you the power to bless others.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature and, through her, God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.
~ Henry James
En el mejor de los casos, la vida es fugaz y pasa rápidamente. Lo que hacemos en el tiempo breve que Dios nos concede sobre la Tierra es lo que nos sigue a la eternidad. Bienaventurados los que invierten bien su tiempo, cumplen su propósito divino y reciben la recompensa prometida.
~ Henry T. Blackaby
And oft the blessed time foretells When all men shall be free; And musical, as silver bells, Their falling chains shall be.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow