Top 100 A Blessing Quotes
#1. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#3. In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.
Alexander Hamilton
#4. It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.
African Spir
#5. In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Brendan Behan
#7. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
Tom Robbins
#8. People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
Elizabeth Edwards
#9. What do you think Dimitri? Is this a good idea, Dimitri? Please give us your blessing so that we can fall down and worship you, Dimitri.
Richelle Mead
#10. I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.
Bonnie Tyler
#12. The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#13. PRAYER Dear Lord, teach me to cultivate a thankful heart as a gift to You and to the world around me. Remind me when I grumble and complain that Your will for me is to speak blessings and to be a blessing to everyone I know. Amen.
Carole Lewis
#14. You are a man with a protective instinct. To care that deeply is a blessing. But like most blessings, it can also be a curse.
Louise Penny
#15. Prayer serves a dual purpose; the blessing of man and the glory of God.
Billy Graham
#16. I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
Taryn Manning
#17. I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
LaToya London
#18. Thus the growing complications of our everyday life, which might have been an affliction, proved to be a blessing in disguise. Indeed, had not the epidemic, as already mentioned, spread its ravages, all would have been for the best.
Albert Camus
#19. It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.
Vincent De Paul
#20. All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
Neale Donald Walsch
#21. Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.
Pat Boone
#22. It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I
know my age who has perfect hearing."
"Most would call that a blessing."
She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
Julia Quinn
#23. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
Socrates
#25. But I comforted myself with the thought that the reward for every discomfort I suffered for God was a spiritual blessing.
Kristiane Backer
#26. I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for ... the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#29. Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we ... recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#30. Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confess that I consider nature and human life to be a lovely and charming flow of fleeting repetitions, and I would like further to confess that I regard this phenomenon as a beauty and a blessing.
Robert Walser
#31. To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.
Shannon L. Alder
#32. I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.
Harsha Bhogle
#33. She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
Libba Bray
#34. The possession of a true testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.
Marion G. Romney
#35. Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.
Florence King
#36. When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.
John O'Donohue
#37. African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
Jefferson Davis
#38. Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
Richard Sibbes
#39. We are in such a habit of evaluating God and His work in us by what we feel that it is very likely that on some occasions we will be discouraged because we do not feel any special blessing. Above everything, when you wait on God, you must do so in the spirit of hope.
Andrew Murray
#40. Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing.
Diane Setterfield
#41. History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
Ronald Reagan
#43. If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing to the world though, as most of us write too much now,' said Mrs. Jo ...
Louisa May Alcott
#44. No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You don't look at someone and say, "You can make my life better." You look at someone and say, " I can make your life better." Be a blessing, not a burden.
Penelope Douglas
#45. When you are blessing the sick, you beg of the Almighty, but actually you are not begging for anything, because from inside your being, energy is pouring into the other person. It is from a state of compassion, of compassionate meditation, that the healing activity of God, within the being, flows.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#46. Your life as a Christian must be that which glorifies God
Sunday Adelaja
#47. I have been all men known to history , Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil , and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky .
R.S. Thomas
#48. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.
Janet Turpin Myers
#49. Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings
Euripides
#50. That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
Anthony Trollope
#51. When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.
P.C. Cast
#52. Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.
Alexander MacLaren
#53. To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
Leah Stewart
#54. Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you
Sunday Adelaja
#55. 'Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they cost too much to send to college. They're a blessing - in many ways the only blessing - and even the evil ones have parents who love them.
Ned Vizzini
#56. It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.
Paige VanZant
#57. Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Petrarch
#58. War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson
#59. Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.
Yogaswami
#60. God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#61. Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.
Nabil N. Jamal
#62. With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
Bruce Lee
#63. When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, "This is a test." Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live.
Randy Alcorn
#64. And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
Oscar Wilde
#65. Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
Neil L. Andersen
#66. If your mind can go along with you it is a blessing. If your mind obeys you, it is a super-blessing.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#67. It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before ... there is a blessing in the air.
William Wordsworth
#68. The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.
John Speed
#69. Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.
Umar II
#70. When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#71. Nature, through all her works, in great degree,
Borrows a blessing from variety.
Music itself her needful aid requires
To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
Charles Churchill
#72. Locate the problems in people's lives with the intention of finding a solution
Sunday Adelaja
#73. For some reason knowing tomorrow wont be so bad doesn't make today pass any faster. In my experience. But that awful day was Monday, and now it's Friday and I don't remember how bad I felt. Now that is a genuine blessing, because I do remember how bad I hated all that misery I can't remember.
Alex Mar
#76. Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.
Danielle Steel
#78. I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.
Karrine Steffans
#79. As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.
George Whitefield
#80. I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
Terrence McNally
#81. The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.
Charles R. Swindoll
#82. Health is a great blessing
competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing
and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#83. We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.
David Ben-Gurion
#84. This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.
Shawn Colvin
#85. I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you ... and [are] having a fun time.
John Assaraf
#86. Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
William Gurnall
#87. Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Pope Francis
#89. I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.
Nadya Suleman
#90. A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.
Francis Atterbury
#91. 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
#92. A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
A.P. Herbert
#93. Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there in those mansions sublime. And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed. Riches eternal and blessings supernal from His precious hand I received
John W. Peterson
#94. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.
Maurice Sendak
#95. Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#96. Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
Todd Tiahrt
#97. Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories ...
Henri Nouwen
#98. The captain would ... turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#99. Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.
William Romaine
#100. Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Thomas B. Macaulay
