Quotes About Blessing

My life was changed in one breath from God.

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Meditation "Christ has no body now, but yours. No hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks compassion into the world. Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world.… Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Life's a gift, that's why they call today the present.

I stirred my coffee and looked at my beautiful grandson. What a great gift he was to all of us. It was so wonderful to have a young person like Charlie in my life

Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That's all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God's got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning's a sin, it's pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I'm fine.

There is no reason why any relationship in our lives can't be blessed with intimacy.

The words of the godly are a life-giving fountain" (10:11 NLT).

God blesses giving, so every use of language, down to the lowliest tweet, ought to be thought of as a gift to others.

We are told that this child was born in order to rule, for the government will be upon his shoulder. And the second thing we are told about His government is that it will continually increase (v. 7). He will bear the government upon His shoulder, and it will be a continually increasing government. This increase—unlike the growth of secular governments—will be a blessing, and not a pestilence. This is the real big government.

Living and working in the presence of God is essential because what contitutes a truly productive person is the fact that they are labouring under the blessing of God.

Every epistle in the New Testament begins with a reference to grace and peace, and this grace and peace is "from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ." The Holy Spirit is not mentioned directly, but I believe, following Jonathan Edwards, that this is because the Spirit is the grace and peace. The Church is therefore the place where the Holy Spirit is most in evidence, as He anoints the preaching, as He inhabits the praises of His people, and as He blesses the sacraments.

Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.

There is a difference between a lump-in-the-throat kind of blessing, and edification. A preacher who plays the emotional violin can make you feel good for a time, but at the end, what do you have? Nothing. As the ancient rhetoricians would have put it, nothing dries more quickly than a tear. An edifying preacher or teacher gives you a brick, and, when you get home, you know exactly where in the wall to put it. As a result, the structure goes up.

In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight.

whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31). This is quite true—whatever you eat or drink, on whatever day, for whatever meal. This includes, of course, the french fries, but that does not mean that you are to stand on the restaurant chair in order to thank God that you are not like other men, the ones who do not glorify God for the french fries.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am. That's a great thing to be.

Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.

As far as recession goes I know its a difficult time out here for people, but me, myself, I honestly have to say Ive been put in a blessed position.