Blessing Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Bram Stoker

  Dream, Sweet, Fear

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.537, Delphi Classics

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• It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “Vonnegut by the Dozen”, p.21, The Nation Co. LP

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• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.

  Andrew Jackson

  Pay The Price, Addiction, Wish

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

  Livy

  Gratitude, Blessed, Men

  Livy (1949). “Livy”

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• Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

  Usher

  Blessed, Kids, Looks

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• This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

  Coretta Scott King

  Supposed To Be, God's Will

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Bless that which you want. If you see a person with a beautiful home, bless that person and bless that home. If you see a person with a beautiful car, bless that person and bless that car. If you see a person with a loving family, bless that person and bless that family. If you see a person with a beautiful body, bless that person and bless their body.

  T. Harv Eker

  Family, Beauty, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Sep 17, 2013

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• I truly believe that we are here to bless and prosper, each other.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Blessed, Believe

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• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

  Francis Quarles

  Wedding, Joy, May

  Francis Quarles (1726). “Argalus and Parthenia”, p.79

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• To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any of the spirit of the occasion? Do you in quiet moments ponder it? Does Karl G.Maeser's phrase, "paragraphs from the book of our possibilities" rest upon you with a sense of mission so that, as President Heber J.Grant exemplified, "you "dream nobly and manfully" and prepare ceaselessly? Do you ever think of Heber C.Kimball's faith that you can "write your own patriarchal blessing" under inspiration, for, saith the Lord, "No good thing will I withhold...

  Truman G. Madsen

  Dream, Book, Inspiration

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• To find the gifts we have been given, we must pray and fast. Often Patriarchal blessings tell us the gifts we have received and declare the promise of gifts we can receive if we seek after them. I urge you each to discover your gifts and to seek after those that will bring direction to your life's work and that will further the work of heaven.

  Robert D. Hales

  Heaven, Over You, Promise

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• Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Inspirational, Lying, Rewards

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”

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• Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Book, Possibility, Paragraph

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• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  Zac Efron

  School, Musical, Has Beens

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• God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."

  Hafez

  Believe, Mean, Games

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• When reason rules, money is a blessing.

  Publilius Syrus

  Reason

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 50, 1856.

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• Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

  Emma Hale

  Wisdom, Father, Heaven

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• Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

  John Armstrong

  Mortals

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.58

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• In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Appreciate, Tragedy, Development

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• I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessed, Want, Finance

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• And the more you spend in blessing
  The poor and lonely and sad,
  The more of your heart's possessing
  Returns to you glad.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Lonely, Heart

  Attributed to John Greenleaf Whittier in The Educational Monthly of Canada, Volume 24‎, p. 29, 1901.

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• A grateful and generous heart is like a magnet.
  When you take the time to acknowledge the abundance
  in your life and share the wealth, you attract
  even more blessings and reasons to feel grateful.
  In this way, receiving and giving creates
  a circle of energy that serves us all.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Grateful, Heart, Circles

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• Be BLESSED-spirit, soul, body and financially.

  Kenneth Copeland

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Reading

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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