Blessing Quotes - page 3

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
He, that noble prize possessing- He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will. View quote
R. H. Tawney
I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said. View quote
Shane Claiborne
Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing. View quote
Ellen G. White
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it. View quote
Samuel Richardson
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. View quote
Saki
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. View quote
Henry Fielding
The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face. (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley)
In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, - if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. View quote
Roberto Cavalli
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren. View quote
John Newton
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. View quote
Bram Stoker
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them! View quote
Jane Austen
When reason rules, money is a blessing. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey. View quote
John Calvin
If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment. View quote
John Calvin
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister. (David Ben-Gurion)
If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes. View quote
T. B. Joshua
It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment. View quote
African Spir
If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel's moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him. View quote
Ruhollah Khomeini
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. View quote
Daniel Defoe