Quotes About Blessing

Zadaka." That was it. The word literally meant a righteous gift. It had been the favorite term of Ezra's teacher, an invitation for the listener to do a certain thing, not to help the one asking, but rather to help himself. A zadaka was, in its purest form, an opportunity to bless the doer through a godly act.

The absence of an inner conflict is one of life's richest blessings," the pastor also had said. "And it comes only from the hand of God.

O Lord God," she breathed fervently, "may I be able to serve as you served when you were with us. I will joyfully lend my hands, my heart to the task before me, in your name. Strengthen me to serve. Give wisdom. Supply the means to meet the needs. Make me a blessing to all whom I touch, I pray with thanksgiving.

If they opt out, bless them—because you won't have to waste time, money, or hopes on them.

But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Formerly, the king (also the god) had to die, therein lay his power. Today, he is miserably forced to feign death, in order to preserve the blessing of power. But it is lost.

The sudden cancellation of a planned event or of some decision or other is one of those subtle pleasures with which chance occasionally blesses us.

The Shamud had told him once that the Mother favoured him so much no woman could refuse him, not even the Mother Herself could refuse him – that was his gift – but he warned him to be wary. Gifts from the Mother were not an unmixed blessing, they put one in Her debt.

Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we may eat," Jondalar said quietly.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.

the nearness of the wound to the gift

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.