Blessing Quotes - Page 32

• Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

  John Lubbock

  Too Late, Late, Has Beens

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• It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

  John Lubbock

  Opportunity, Men, Waste

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• Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

  John Lubbock

  Trying, Blessing You, Realizing

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• I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

  John Newton

  Christian, Prayer, Exercise

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.77

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• If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

  Abigail Adams

  Father, Simplicity, Littles

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

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• There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Jobs, Men

  Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life by I. Walton. To which are added, the 'Christian letter' to mr. Hooker; and dr. Covel's 'Just and temperate defence' in reply to it [&c.] an intr. and notes by B. Hanbury”, p.67

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• I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Prayer, War, Class

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• I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

  Jeremy Renner

  Able, Wonderful, Enjoy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I just think everything is a learning experience and every moment that you have that actually feels good inside of your heart is an absolute blessing and a gift.

  Drew Barrymore

  Heart, Thinking, Feel Good

  "Feel the Love with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore in Music & Lyrics". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

  Dave Franco

  Real, Age, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.

  Iris Apfel

  Gay, People, Giving

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• Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

  Mark Hart

  Father, Talent, Sin

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.6, Franciscan Media

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  Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

  Tim Tebow

  Burden

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2014

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• You can usually tell by the look on someone's face if they woke up counting their problems or their blessings.

  Mark Hart

  Looks, Faces, Problem

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.14, Franciscan Media

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• God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit's testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Light, Darkness, Guilt

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• The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

  Stephen Fry

  Iron, Church, Hot

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• Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

  John Keats

  Should

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

  Thomas Merton

  Race, Together, Information

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• ...we must pray to the Almighty not to refuse His blessing to this change and not to abandon our people in the times to come.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Praying, Almighty

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?

  Marla Ruzicka

  Jobs, People

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• Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Heart, Years

  Herbert Woodfield Paul, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Edward Gibbon, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1915). “Men and Letters”

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• Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Hands, Christ On The Cross

  Joyce Meyer (1995). “If Not for the Grace of God: Learning to Live Independently from Struggles and Frustrations”

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• For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

  Daniel Handler

  Teenager, Phones, Parent

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

  Glenn Danzig

  Seduction, Hunger, Curse

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• Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Trouble, Force

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