Blessings Quotes (711 Quotes)

Without the blessings of that divine knowledgeable even the knowledgeable(man) shall cease to attain total knowledge.

It's amazing. I had a big part in writing the song as well, so it's just a wonderful feeling, ... It's a whirlwind. I had no idea this was going to happen to me at all when I turned 18. It's truly a blessing.

Getting John was an all-around blessing. His basketball I. Q. is through the roof and he's humble about it. Your hands better be up any time John has the ball. He won't look at you the entire possession and still he drops it right in your hands.

There was a blessing in there in terms of giving us one more opportunity to grow.

We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. 'In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments.' (DC 5921)

It's just a blessing to be back for another year.

It's someone who's going to help us -- me and my family and other people (who are) coming along. It's a blessing that somebody came to rescue us like this here,

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity.

Sometimes the things that fall through are a blessing in disguise and you find something even better,

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

ESPN called it hideous. I asked Coach Mears for his permission and he gave me his blessing. I plan on wearing it for the Kentucky and Vanderbilt games because they were Tennessee's two biggest rivals when he was there.

Everything's been such a whirlwind since the AFC (Championship Game). Everything's great -- just coming straight from the Super Bowl to the Pro Bowl and getting the congratulations from all of these other great players who have had great careers and great seasons, obviously. It's a blessing, that's for sure.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Everything is pretty optimistic. I talked to him on the phone. He sounded a bit better. It was surely a blessing.

It is going to be a long, hard haul it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden.

It's a blessing to be back in Salisbury and see the boys and girls play. And just to be around the community.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, 'that my heart has bled.'

Leisure may prove to be a curse rather than a blessing, unless education teaches a flippant world that leisure is not a synonym for entertainment.

This whole season was a blessing. To go through what I went through last year, it was just so frustrating. ... I was mad when (the overrated tag) came out, frustrated, but the people who know me my teammates, the organization know what type of player I am.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.

It definitely was one of the hardest things ever. To go from having all the blessings in the world being drafted in the first round, being able to have more money than you ever thought you'd have then it didn't mean anything at the end of the day, because the person you wanted to share all those accomplishments wasn't there to share them with you.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

I'm just so thankful to have had the opportunity to win a championship with these guys. Everything that has come our way this year has been a blessing.

We have made some changes in our defense without sacrificing for offense. It's been kind of blessing for us, because now we have some competition with the bottom half of our batting order. Our kids know that we intend on putting our best nine players on the diamond.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Spend your brief moment according to natures law, and serenely greet the journeys end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

All of us have been blessed to be a blessing. So whether someone gives 100 or 10,000, each contribution is significant to how much God has blessed them.

It will be a nice way for them to always remember Jimmy they can take it as he is looking down on them, blessing them. This is going to change their lives.

Then, I started getting excited. I thought, 'Hey, we've got a pretty good team.' It kind of all came together. Heck, I could have been traded to a West Coast team. I feel like it was a blessing I was able to come to Pittsburgh.

But I obviously wouldn't have done the album unless the other guys gave their blessing.

I told Dukes it's a blessing in disguise. He's a great athlete, and he's going to be a great player. He's probably one of the more athletic people we have on the team.

With the blessing and grace of Almighty God and with the assistance of the faithful Saudi people, we shall continue the welfare march of construction and development and maintain the gains which are reflected by comprehensive achievements in various fields

It's a blessing to be here and have the chance to make history.

Physically and mentally my body hasn't felt this good in a long time. For me (the NHL lockout) was somewhat of a blessing in that I still had those concussion symptoms for a long time, post-playoffs. Although I would have tried skating in camp last year, I probably wouldn't have been ready to go.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

We have lots of good friends, and that's a blessing.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

He who is without a wife dwells without blessing, life, joy, help, good, and peace

An early Christmas wish from Marisa Tompkins of Tega Cay, S. C. Why don't we sacrifice our own gift-giving during the holidays and adopt a hurricane victim family ... Wouldn't our blessings do more good if invested in the future of the people of Louisiana. ... Where do we start.

This whole season was a blessing.

It's a blessing. It's like always when I was a kid, I would say, 'I want this, I want that' as far as gifts go, but this is the biggest gift I have ever had.

The next thing I knew, it was all over the state. It's amazing how this one little request exploded into a blessing from everybody wanting them to have a part of home.

Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.