Blessing Quotes - Page 28

• I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.

  Ransom Riggs

  Children, Real, Home

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• There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

  Steve Harvey

  Luck, No Such Thing As Luck

  Interview with Henry Rogers, www.previewonline.org.

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• Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled? What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change?

  Richard L. Evans

  Peace, Memories, Fighting

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• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

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• God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

  Oswald Chambers

  Encouragement, Religious, Order

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• And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Prayer, Humble

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1403, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Letting Go, Religious

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• Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Christian, Toil, Acquisition

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• Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Technique, Bars

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted [knocks wood] career... I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

  Mario Andretti

  Careers, Long, Fulfilling

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell and Laini Abraham, www.littlepocketguide.com. May 27, 2011.

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• It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

  Andrew Johnson

  Liberty, Sacred, Republic

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.288, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether it be polygamy, whether it be divorce, whether it be a marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. The ideal would be a man and a woman under a covenant of God's blessing.

  Max Lucado

  Divorce, Men, Different

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

  Leslie Parrish

  People, May, Want

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Practice, Perspective

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

  Vernon Davis

  Thinking, Everyday, Wake Up

  "Vernon Davis ‘The NFL Playoffs’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, January 15, 2012.

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• A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Term Limits, Politics

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely, no place more unfamiliar. When I talk about how it is both a blessing and a burden to have those kinds of roots, it can be terribly isolating, because when you are so familiar, you know the shadow.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lonely, Utah, Roots

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Wise, Spiritual, Teacher

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• People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Empowerment, Luck

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• That is the biggest part I like about the game, the camaraderie. Just seeing how it translates on the field, a lot of those guys helped me out throughout my process and just seeing them and being out there with them is definitely a blessing.

  Eric Berry

  Games, Guy, Fields

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• What a blessing to live to be missed.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Children, Blessed

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• The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Helping Others, Succeed

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• God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

  Mark Batterson

  Leadership, Christian, God Bless

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2014

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