Quotes About Blessing

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

May the light illuminate your hearts and shine in your life every day of the year. May everlasting peace be yours and upon our Earth.

The family is the key of Christmas.

For all of life is Christmas, an eternal gift from God.

Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing

If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting!

There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.

A Franciscan Benediction

Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.

27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[149] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." 29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

one East European Christian observed, "You Western Christians often seem to consider material prosperity to be the only sign of God's blessing. On the other hand, you often seem to perceive poverty, discomfort, and suffering as signs of God's disfavor. In some ways we in the East understand suffering from the opposite perspective. We believe that suffering may be a sign of God's favor and trust in the Christians to whom the trial is permitted to come.

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

Ill wishing is a curse on the woman who does it, as well as the one who receives it. When you put such words out in the world, they can overshoot-like an arrow. A curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. I would hope that you never curse at all. Bless you my daughter, and may you remain pure in heart and get your desires.

How can I bless you when you are cursed in your choice?

This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall go to him. Go then, he said. Kiss our baby good-bye before you go, and Henry. I shall tell Catherine that you left your blessing for her. And kiss me farewell. For if you go into that courtroom you will never come out alive.

I kneel on the planks for her blessing, and then sit beside her with my feet dangling over the edge and my own reflection looking up at me as if I were a water goddess living under the river, waiting to be released from an enchantment, and not a spinster princess that nobody wants.

If everyone in Christendom ate nothing but fish on Friday, then the fishermen and their children would eat well the rest of the week.