Blessings Quotes (711 Quotes)




    When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

    Winning the scholarship is sort of a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that the schooling is free, and the curse is that now I can take more classes, which, with a full-time job, makes it a little more difficult.




    We are all aware of man's poor peripheral vision in that his views are often narrow and heedless of what is going on on each side of him. Man's problem is often one of length of view, too. This poorness of perspective often produces wonderful and pathetic paradoxes men who have been given the blessings of life by the grace of God, cry that life is senseless men who have been given breath and voice by God, use the powers of speech to deny God's existence men who have been given the capacity to feel, exult so much in this gift that sensual things sublimate spiritual things and some men who see our reaching out to distant places in our solar system conclude that this special planet is a random, unplanned mutant and refuse to connect the order of physical laws (that makes such journeys into space possible) with an Orderer.


    The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the silence that comes after prayer. There is a blessing sent from God in every burden of sorrow.

    Maybe the travel will be a blessing. We don't have to deal with the hundreds of people in the lobbies, going into the hotels and using the kitchen elevators.

    Falsehood has vanished, duality has been erased, and they are totally overflowing with Truth. They serve the Supreme Lord God, and enshrine the One Lord within their minds. The months, the days, and the moments are auspicious, for those upon whom the Lord casts His Glance of Grace. Nanak begs for the blessing of Your Vision.


    Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

    If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.


    When we first had him he was very aware of his limited survival of his own mortality, and I think every day that he has he views as a blessing, ... We had a video conference with some of the other surgeons and nurses that are involved in the project, and his one message to them was 'Life is wonderful.'


    It was a blessing because, to see all of us three years ago, we could barely get in the building. So for us to have a medley and represent a place that has been hit so hard ...

    But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.




    The bottom line has been better with less than a full crop. Usually, if the wind is calm, in lower spots we could have peaches that get colder. As a result, we could have thinning with some varieties depending on how close it gets to 30 degrees, but that could be a blessing.

    Forrest served Mayor Daley well twice as chief of staff. And his proudest accomplishment is what he did with the parks. He did it with Mayor Daley's blessing. The mayor told him the parks were broken and needed to be fixed, and he fixed them.

    And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

    We were sluggish a bit at the end. They had a run and we came back. The important thing is that we know how to close a game. We got the 'W', that's a blessing for us, especially with this kind of game.

    It baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.


    'Success Is Gauged By Self-Mastery' I should like to say a few words about self-discipline, self-control, or self-mastery which is so important to all of us if we are to accomplish what we set out to do and enjoy the blessings which we desire so much. Fir.



    The preliminary idea is to use the sidelines. Right now, we don't put that much on the field anyway. This way parents will be closer to their kids and friends and family will be closer to seeing them. It might be a blessing in disguise.



    I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.




    My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person.


    It was a challenge. You can kind of take it the wrong way and take it personally, but New York fans are passionate. They want to say, 'If I had that skill and that ability and that body, that's how I would play.' I knew that, but you have to put yourself in other people's shoes sometimes. All I could do is do what I could do. Even with the pain, the contract was a blessing. All I did was do everything to the best of my ability.


    Gay happens to be as amiable as he is athletic, which is a blessing and a curse. Rudy has a smile for everybody, ... My wife calls him a 'sweet kid,' which probably does describe him, but it doesn't help me. I want him to be a really nice person -- but we've just got to get him to be a little bit nastier on the court.


    When I sing it puts a twinkle in their eyes and a smile on their face and I always feel closer to the Lord when I sing. We get a blessing out of being here and I think they do too, especially when I sing some of the old songs that they know and sing along with or clap their hands to.

    We had a chance to go to Mississippi or Alabama, but we decided to come here. We want to be not only a blessing, but to make a difference, even if it's in the life of only one of the 300 children.

    This event is a celebration of the blessing of children in our lives. Parents and kids have a lot of fun at all the activities, but the whole idea is to stress the importance of loving and valuing children.

    The Bay Area music world doesn't know me, ... It's my fate. It keeps me humble. But the world of schools and parents and children knows me. It feels so sweet to be doing this. What a blessing.





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