Blessing Quotes - Page 31

Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is called luck by those who are unaware of the workings of higher Worlds. Providence also creates very difficult circumstances to reveal or dissolve a fixed situation ... This is called bad luck or later, A Blessing in Disguise.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

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

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment.

It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.

Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.

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.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof.

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.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.