Quotes About Blessing

THE FIVE CONTEMPLATIONS This food is the gift of the whole universe, the Earth, the sky, and much hard work. May we eat in such a way as to be worthy to receive it. May we transform our unskillful states of mind and learn to eat in moderation. May we take only food that nourishes us and prevents illness. We accept this food in order to realize the path of understanding and love.

Let the Divine Presence be always with you.

Secret 251 You are entirely dependent upon God's Creation to accomplish anything of value. This is reason for gratitude in and of itself.

What grace I have is enough.

spend time with your food; every minute of your meal should be happy. Not many people have the time and the opportunity to sit down and enjoy a meal like that. We are very fortunate.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Each morning when we wake up to life we see that we have a gift of twenty-four brand new hours. If

The greatest miracle is to be alive.

we practice the Five Contemplations before eating. The second Contemplation is, "May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive this food.

Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam.

My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury, so come equipped.

I'm kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.

We didn't plan one of my kids; they just kind of happened. So I've just kind of taken each one as a blessing sent to me by God.

This was just one of many times God has spared me.

Who wouldn't want a baby girl? They're the best! And I know that's what Kanye has always wanted; he wanted a little girl.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Without my family, I'm nothing. They kept me in the right place. I believe that I'm the luckiest person in the country when I'm with them.

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I have faith in the Almighty and believe in his kindness.

I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

Biscuits are rough, potatoes are tough. I pray to God we all get enough.

I did have regrets these past six months," he told me quietly. "I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .