Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Suckling

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...

John Shelby Spong

Religion is a mixed blessing.

James Robertson

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

James Russell Lowell

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Thomas a Kempis

Blessed are the simple, for they shall have much peace.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Taylor Swift

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

Talib Kweli

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

Swami Vivekananda

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Swami Vivekananda

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

Tony Robbins

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

Paulo Coelho

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Paulo Coelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

Marianne Moore

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

Max Lucado

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

Max Lucado

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

Max Lucado

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

Dick Ebersol

The first thing I said to Susan in the emergency room was, 'Honey, you're just going to have to realize that we were blessed to have 14 incredible years with Teddy. He's gone.'

The card said, 'When times get rough, go out for dinner and a movie. God Bless You,' ... And there were certificates for Safeway, McDonald's, Blockbuster ... Well, that's what we did, and we really enjoyed ourselves.

Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

Nate Robinson

God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I’ll take that any day,

Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

Louisa May Alcott

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Lou Dobbs

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

John Flavel

Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

John F. Kennedy

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

John F. Kennedy

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Jonathan Horton

When I moved down to Houston, I had people who were willing to support me with sponsorships and different endorsement deals. That's really how I stayed afloat. It isn't ridiculous money where you can live however you want - I still have to be disciplined - but I've been very blessed with having people to support me.

Jonathan Edwards

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.