Blessing Quotes - Page 36

• The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

  Edward Young

  Father, Son, Thinking

  Edward Young, John Mitford (1852). “The poetical works of Edward Young”, p.74

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Wine, Sunshine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Order, Church, Firsts

  Jonathan Edwards (2015). “Jonathan Edwards on Revival”, p.303, Ravenio Books

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• The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

  Hudson Taylor

  Soul, My Soul

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• Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

  Trey Anastasio

  Dream, Play, Expectations

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• Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

  William Ellery Channing

  Taken, Good Friend, May

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• The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

  John Adams

  Government, Constitution, Social

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.193

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• I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Atheist, Thinking, Knowing

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• Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

  Arthur Young

  Believe, Taken, Confusion

  Arthur Young (1889). “Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789”

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• Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

  John Lubbock

  Too Late, Late, Has Beens

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

  Tim Tebow

  Burden

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2014

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Ideas, Luxury, Water

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Mind, Form, Rapture

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• Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Book, Past, Remembrance

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• I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had much trouble in their life. And those that are the most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us is to have a path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us was a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, World

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