Quotes About Blessing

He wasn't just lucky. He was someone who had the capacity to see his own luck and enjoy it. An awful lot of people who are lucky don't recognize it and make everybody else sick by complaining about their lot when everyone else knows they've had such great luck.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us

The old limits of the possible have been exposed as fraudulent inventions designed to keep the powerless in their places. Jesus violates such invented limitations and opens the world to the impossible. He ends that defiant declaration with the admonition: "And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me" (v. 23).

Not one man has ever sacrificed for His Lord without richly being repaid. If the cross is only contrasted with earthly pleasures, it may seem hard and threatening. But when the cross is weighed in the balances with the glorious treasures to be had through it, even the cross seems sweet.

An attitude of readiness to try over and over again in our quest to find God and his will in prayer is itself a grace and a blessing of major consequence.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

So when we look at any sacrificial action, any surrender of wealth we must first acknowledge that it is in fact wealth.

He who has need of riches feels fear on their account. But no man enjoys a blessing that brings anxiety. He is always trying to add a little more. While he puzzles over increasing his wealth, he forgets how to use it.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I "get to do," not something I "have to do," then we are coming near to the Christ life.

Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a gift to be opened.

What Paragal intended for evil has become the foundation for much that is good.

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

Maybe they're a blessing—those first few misty moments of morning, when you're allowed to forget what your life is really like today.

Wherever you end up, I wish you clear skies. Always.

You will be so happy you didn't get pregnant. Because this child will fill your life so full of love that you will thank God every day that somehow it was just meant to be. She was meant to be yours.

God uniquely prepares every single parent to handle what comes through adoption.

Life is a gift, living is a surprise.

The best company is the one that turns water into wine.

I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

In terms of its consequences for decisions, the optimistic bias may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases. Because optimistic bias can be both a blessing and a risk, you should be both happy and wary if you are temperamentally optimistic.

God only allows his Divine Presence to rest on someone who is strong, wealthy, wise, and humble.