Blessing Quotes - Page 20

• A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

  Joanna Baillie

  Prayer, Men, Heaven

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.195

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• Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Events, Found

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Music, Rain, Sunshine

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• one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

  Kate Millett

  Adulthood

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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• we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

  Jane Porter

  Appreciation, Possession, Knows

  Jane Porter (190?). “Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author”

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• A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

  Francis Atterbury

  Wise, Community, This Life

  Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.58

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• Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Life, Done, Matter

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Death, Fear, People

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• Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Memories, Blessed, Sight

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• Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

  Richard Baxter

  Dying, Bed, Might

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• I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

  Lady Gaga

  Destiny, Thinking, Purpose

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• A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest needs and hungers-amid toils, struggles, and cares. It may be a guide through perplexing tangles, Gods voice whispering cheer, a comforter breathing peace in sorrow.

  J.R. Miller

  Sweet, Song, Morning

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• They that do much themselves deny,
  Receive more blessings from the sky.

  Thomas Creech

  Sky, Denial, Deny

  Horace, Thomas Creech (1715). “The Odes: Satires, and Epistles of Horace. Done Into English by Mr. Creech”, p.95

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• Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite the ferocity of the wind that keeps blowing, that keeps slapping against my face, creating a pressure that says 'fall'? Why I don't I listen to those who call me a fool because I continue to love despite my hurt? I don't know what tomorrow brings; I don't know if my troubles will seize or if my sorrows will continue. But this much I do know - I will continue to hold out, I will continue to press on, until my blessing comes.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Hurt, Fall

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• I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Heart, Eye

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• Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Men, Echoes, Land

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• Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.

  Nancy Pickard

  Religious, Believe, Angel

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• I'll go anywhere. To get picked up somewhere will be a blessing

  Javon Ringer

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• Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soul, Disguise, Seeming

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• There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

  Maude Meagher

  Clothes, Special, Uniforms

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

  Sophia Lee

  Evil, Firsts, Cures

  Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.97, University Press of Kentucky

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• I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

  Edith Roosevelt

  Thinking, Imagination, Greatest Blessings

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• We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.

  Andrew Wommack

  Prayer, Believe, Exercise

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• It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of his providence.

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Father, Might, Sometimes

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Susannah Spurgeon, Joseph Harrald “C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography: 1854-1860”

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• I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.

  Nadya Suleman

  Children, Believe, People

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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