Quotes About Blessing

I come from a religious tradition where we make a blessing over great scientists regardless of their views on religion.

Moses insists on three things. First, we are free. The choice is ours. Blessing or curse? Good or evil? Faithfulness or faithlessness? You decide, says Moses. Never has freedom been so starkly defined, not just for an individual but for a nation as a whole.

the simplest definition of the Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry.

Seek the welfare of the city to which I have exiled you and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its prosperity you shall prosper" (Jer. 29:7) – the first statement in history of what it is to be a creative minority.

That is why three of the four matriarchs found themselves unable to conceive other than by a miracle.

God rest her soul and may she never walk at night

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

Que los dioses quieran concederte lo que tu corazón anhela: un esposo, una morada y la concordia como compañía. Porque no hay nada en este mundo más sólido y precioso que el entendimiento de un hombre y una mujer que viven juntos en su casa.»

Non voglio che si perdano questi giorni, dobbiamo accettarli per quello che sono: giorni pieni d'una grazia sconosciuta

No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not be so" (James 3: 8-10ESV).

Do not perceive through overly judgmental eyes, prone to damnation. If you do, you are constrained to witness nothing but your notion of perfection, either fulfilled or violated. Gaze at life rather as though you were always blessing it, consecrating it, humbly, as holy, and then your biases will be relaxed and your curiosity will be aroused and surprise; there, in your peripheral, a glimmer after which you go, and it is gone, but its absence gleams.

If one of the best ways to appreciate life is to have an unhappy childhood, I was very fortunate.

The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.

May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)

Let us pray for their spirits as they join StarClan.

With this life I give you humility.

Cundo encuentras a tu alma cónyuge equivale a vivir el cielo, el paraíso, estando encarnado. Pocos seres humanos son tan afortunados.

Every time your enemy fires a curse, you must fire a blessing, and so you are to bombard back and forth with this kind of artillery. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Thank God." His hands tangled in her hair as he

Oh!" cried the mother in her bitterness, "I'll never understand! A hereditary disease, and never before in either of our families. And our other child with no sign of it. Thank God," she added quickly.

God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them.