Bless Quotes - Page 8

• I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, Blessed, Islamic

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• If any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned…I wish more of our young men would take to themselves wives of the daughters of Zion, and not wait for us old men to take them all; go ahead upon the right principle, young gentlemen, and God bless you forever and ever and make you fruitful , that we may fill the mountains and then the earth with righteous inhabitants.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Daughter, Men, Zion

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• Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Rain, Book

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.17

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• God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Sleep, Men, Firsts

  John Godfrey Saxe (1864). “Poems”, p.184

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• Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Blessing, Opportunity

  "Hillary Clinton Sits Down With Bill O'Reilly". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2008.

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• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Yellow, Giving, Gold

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• The bond of family blesses us with an immeasurable power. But we also must accept what comes with it. It gives us a responsibility to love without condition, without apology. We can never waver from the power of that bond, even if it's tested. The bond nourishes us, gives us strength. Without that power, we are nothing.

  Elijah

  Responsibility, Apology, Giving

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• Today, use your words to lift up and bless the people around you.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Use, Today

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• You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Heart, Names

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• The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Stars, Rain, Flames

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.425

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• One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

  Keith Richards

  Heart, Cat, Guitar

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• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Heart, Giving

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• Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

  J. G. Holland

  Artist, Hands, Soul

  J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.98

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• She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Funny, Heart, Faces

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• I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

  Muhammad Ali

  Giving, Charity, God Bless

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

  Billie Holiday

  Wisdom, Children, Papa

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James E. Faust taught, “Priesthood is the authority delegated to man to minister in the name of God. “The Aaronic Priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels.
  As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you. You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.

  David L. Beck

  Children, Father, Angel

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• The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Christian, Hate, Land

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”

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• The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Wife, Support

  Source: baylyblog.com

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Twilight, Despair, Midnight

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.106

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• The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heaven, Coquette, Babyhood

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• What is time for if not to bless?

  Ann Voskamp

  Ifs

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.188, Zondervan

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• My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

  Walter Scott

  Religious, Lying, Men

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman”, p.572, e-artnow

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