Quotes About Blessing

For by grace you have been saved . . . —Ephesians 2:8

For I know the plans I have for you . . . plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. —Jeremiah 29:11

For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. —John 1:16

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

What a stunning picture this gives us of God's amazing providence—His ability to look ahead, know exactly what is coming, and make provision for us before we even get there. He is not only a God who can help us handle our current issues and pressures but One who has already prepared comfort, help, and blessing for problems that aren't even on our horizon.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

A medida que camines en unión y comunión con Él se despedirá una dulce fragancia y crecerá un delicioso fruto; la fragancia y el fruto del su Espíritu. Tu serás bendecida; otros serán bendecidos. Y es todo, todo, todo para el Amado.

And so...we prayed. And I added a silent prayer of my own, giving God thanks for the blessing of my father.

I held out my sisters' letters for him to read. Tears appeared in his eyes, and he kissed the letters and declared, "I love your sisters! It shall be the object of my life to justify the trust shown in these letters. May God bless them.

All human endeavors depend on God's common grace.

I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water. Lifting up her hands, she said as a blessing, 'What! All this, and Christ too?'" (Morning & Evening)

Happy are the people whose God is the Lord!" (Ps. 144:15).

It is a gift. Who is it to say it does not come from God.

You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the laws, where would the force or power be to prevent or constrain them? And herein is the real blessing of civilization, because this happy result has its origin in her bosom, growing out of her very nature.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

In this journey, I began to understand the blessing that I have in holding my faith tradition high when it comes to Jesus because a high Christology is the elemental impulse of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it

We're lucky just to be alive.

if you want God's blessing, He must be the architect of the vision.

Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.

Bless this house, oh Lord, we pray. Make it safe by night and day. Bless these walls, so firm and stout, keeping want and trouble out. Bless the roof and chimney tall, let Thy peace lie over all. Bless the door that it may prove, ever open to joy and love. Bless these windows, shining bright, letting in God's heavenly light. Bless the folks who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin. Bless us that we'll dwell one day, oh Lord with Thee.