Blessing Quotes - Page 31

• A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Unions, Spurs, Degrees

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789”, p.257

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• There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Goal, Brotherhood

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• The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Overconsumption, Factors Of Production, Scarce

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• Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Powerful

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.

  Anthony Trollope

  Reading, Men, Thinking

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.180, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

  Don Davis

  Pleasure, Trade, Temporary

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• ...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

  Roger Waters

  Artist, People, Different

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Men, Should Have

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• It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Spring, Mind, Stories

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• Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

  Mooji

  Heart, Love Is, Joy

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• No more let sins and sorrows grow,
  Nor thorns infest the ground;
  He comes to make His blessings flow
  Far as the curse is found.

  Isaac Watts

  Sorrow, Thorns, Flow

  Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell (1820). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts: To which are Added Indexes, Very Much Enlarged and Improved, to Facilitate the Use of the Whole in Finding Psalms Or Hymns Suited to Particular Subjects Or Occasions”, p.61

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• I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.

  Olivia Holt

  Supportive, Talent, I Am Thankful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Grateful, Opportunity, Thinking

  Dr. Bernie Siegel (2009). “365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love”, p.26, New World Library

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• God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Love Is, God Love, Loved Ones

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1876). “The Christian's secret of a happy life. By H.W.S.”, p.43

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• President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Spiritual, Thinking, Offering

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• The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Simple, Today, Tomorrow

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• The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

  R. A. Torrey

  Jesus, Grieving, Return

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• God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Atheism, Littles

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• You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

  Paul Schrader

  God, Thinking, Want

  "Fictional character: Jesus". "The Last Temptation of Christ", 1988.

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• I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Awards, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

  Virginia Satir

  Giving, Support, Parent

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• The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

  Common

  Thinking, Would Be, Oscars

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Artist, Years, Trouble

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• Give as much as you can at every possible opportunity. If you can't afford to give money, give your time. If you can't afford the time, give your heart. Blessings come back to you in unpredictable ways.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

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• To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

  Frances Wright

  Freedom, Giving, Liberty

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.518

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