Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

Saint Augustine

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

Saint Francis de Sales

Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

Saint Francis de Sales

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Saint Augustine

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

Saint Augustine

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Saint Augustine

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

Yasser Arafat

Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.

Winston Churchill

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Wilmer Valderrama

Honestly, Ive been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

Zakk Wylde

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

Twyla Tharp

Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.

Vladimir Putin

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

William Ames

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

William Arthur Ward

We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

William Arthur Ward

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

Washington Irving

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

William Styron

I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

William Ralph Inge

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

William Butler Yeats

When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

William Butler Yeats

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Will Carleton

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

Walter Scott

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

Walter Dean Myers

Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my feelings just Tumble from me. I am half foolish, Half drunk with wanting you With wanting to take your hand And leap into the darkness of whatever Life will bring. Love makes me Brave and without love I'm made Nothing.

William Morris

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

William Jackson

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

Yo-Yo Ma

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

Winston Churchill

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Rick Warren

Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.

Rick Warren

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

Rick Warren

I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.