Quotes About Blessing

To live at all is miracle enough.

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

The birth of my daughter, gave me life.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end," and you could say, "Thank you, Fairy Godmother.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.

you're a miracle. For that we have to celebrate.

I'm lucky to have had her for as long as I did.

The stars are out by the dozen; they look like faraway gems. We're so lucky to live by the mountains the way we do. You just feel closer to the stars. To heaven.

Susannah told me that when I was born, she knew I was destined for one of her boys. She said it was fate. My mother, who didn't normally go in for that kind of thing, said it would be perfect, as long as I'd had at least a few loves before I settled down. Actually, she said "lovers," but that word made me cringe. Susannah put her hands on my cheeks and said, "Belly, you have my unequivocal blessing. I'd hate to lose my boys to anyone else.

It's my gift and my curse.

I dig out some change from my pocket. She takes a careful look at the nickels and dimes. God blesses me anyway.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous.

You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.

Ravaillac assassinated one of the best and wisest of sovereigns, at a time when a good and wise sovereign, a blessing at all times so valuable to a state, was particularly precious: and that to the inhabitants of a populous and extensive empire. He is taken, and doomed to the most excruciating tortures. His son, well persuaded of his being a sincere penitent, and that mankind, in case of his being at large, would have nothing more to fear from him, effectuates his escape.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

whether the victory be won in peace or in war, God gives the same reward to those who win it.

The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always dependent on God's grace, His undeserved favor to those who deserve His wrath. Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.

Andrew Murray wrote, "In creating man with a free will and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited himself. He made himself dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing" (emphasis added).2

God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory.

God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish His purpose. And His purpose is for His glory and our good.