Top 100 Blessing Quotes
#2. It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it ... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#4. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?
Hugh Halter
#5. Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.
Prince
#6. Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew Jackson
#7. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.
David O. McKay
#9. From the beginning God's people are to be "missionary." They are chosen to be a channel of blessing to others. But in order to be a missionary people they have to be formed to be like the promise they carry.
Craig G. Bartholomew
#10. Story was a blessing and a curse. A reason to stay and a reason to leave.
J.A. Huss
#11. God always protects what He considers to be a blessing for a person.
Sunday Adelaja
#12. But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they're not going to change. We're going to change. Everybody's going to change. So accepting that changes are part of our lives makes marriage a blessing and not a curse, because love is stronger than anything else.
Paulo Coelho
#13. Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.
Ravi Zacharias
#14. I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
Ruben Blades
#16. I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.
Justin Smith
#17. Such is the indomitable spirit of saffron that even after years stale on my chest, it brought the rice to life with flavor and the color of a sunset. Or perhaps my wife leaned down and touched my efforts with a kettle-blessing to keep me safe.
Eli Brown
#18. Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.
Chuck Palahniuk
#19. Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
#20. Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.
Elisabeth Harnois
#21. Sexual attraction is common, Mind rapport is a blessing, and a Soul connection is a gift from the Divine.-Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#22. It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
Leslie Banks
#23. By birth you have been blessed, and it is time to acknowledge that blessing.
Kiera Cass
#24. God has not given this false marriage his blessing. Every year he has turned his face from me and I should have seen it earlier. The queen is not my wife, she is Arthur's wife.
Philippa Gregory
#25. Never think you can convince God through prayer for a blessing. Praying for prosperity is a wrong weapon for war. If prayer could bring money, all intercessors would be billionaires.
Apostle T. Vutabwashe
#26. A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.
Kahlil Gibran
#27. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.
William R. Cutrer
#28. Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#29. That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Aldous Huxley
#30. I ruthlessly expend my time and my energies seeking many random things, none of which will bless me in the way that I suppose they will, for despite my frequently stubborn resistance to the thought, the single and sole blessing that I can be utterly confident in is found in seeking God alone.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. Eragon blinked. Is it me, or is everyone on the edge today? Like Arya-one moment she's angry, the next she's giving me a blessing!
No one will be comfortable until things return to normal.
Define normal.
Christopher Paolini
#32. We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
Beth Ditto
#33. Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
A.B. Simpson
#34. My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.
Christine Ebersole
#35. Any judgment, any evaluation - even if it approves and speaks a blessing - will be heard as a negation. This is an absolute first principle of this book. Law is an attack. It is heard as a negation by its recipient. All laws are negation. God's law is the negation.
Paul F. M. Zahl
#36. The evening makes me think Facebook is a blessing and a curse. Sure, it helps us keep track of people with whom we otherwise would have fallen out of touch. But sometimes relationships fade for a reason. They're better left a memory.
Rachel Bertsche
#37. [Patriarchal Blessing] - These privileged blessings are a powerful witness of the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ in bringing exaltation to each of us.
James E. Faust
#38. Every day, with all my heart, I will miss you. And each time I think of you, you will feel my blessing.
Consuelo Saah Baehr
#39. To the one who views from a larger perspective ... everything is a blessing.
Vivian Amis
#40. You of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so.
Janette Oke
#41. You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
A.B. Simpson
#42. I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#43. What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
#44. The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#45. The Lord may very well have removed His blessing from America the moment America stopped blessing us.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#46. There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.
Joel Osteen
#47. What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch
that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.
Nancy E. Turner
#48. And to every waiting heart that will make the sacrifice, and give up everything, and give time to cry and pray to God, the answer will come. The blessing is not far off. Our God delights in helping us. He will enable us to perfect, not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, what was begun in the Spirit.
Andrew Murray
#49. The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#50. A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
Desmond Tutu
#51. It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.
Jonathan Sacks
#53. God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
Ted Cruz
#54. I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.
J. Sidlow Baxter
#55. But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
- Charlie
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#56. I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.
Ransom Riggs
#57. He had that York gift, didn't he?" he presses me. "Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It's a blessing, there's no real sense to it. It's just that some men have a charm, don't they? And then people follow them? People just follow them?" I
Philippa Gregory
#58. A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
Thomas Jefferson
#59. In moments of comfort, prepare for adversity.
In moments of misfortune, hope for prosperity.
In moments of blessing, plan for tragedy.
In moments of danger, fight for victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Twitter is a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Ashley Wagner
#61. Like blood, money is a blessing that should be shared, but you must be a responsible giver.
Injap Sia
#62. And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.
Daniel Defoe
#63. The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.
Dallin H. Oaks
#64. I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick Lamar
#65. No, he had to remember she was an assassin with the blessing of a pretty face and sharp wits. She washed her hands with blood, and was just as likely to slit his throat as offer him a kind word.
Sarah J. Maas
#66. It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.
Seann William Scott
#67. It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#68. We need to start rejoicing when the devil is mad, because he sees our blessing before we do
Sunday Adelaja
#69. There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Seneca The Younger
#70. If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#71. 11 s You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf t for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
Anonymous
#72. God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.
Bonar Law
#73. Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
Twyla Tharp
#74. The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!
John Hagee
#76. My angel says: "start moving, so I can start blessing
Paulo Coelho
#77. Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.
Scott Jurek
#78. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#79. Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
Miguel De Cervantes
#80. We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
Henry B. Eyring
#81. The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
Johnny Hunt
#82. To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.
Tan Twan Eng
#84. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon
#85. I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.
Rose Byrne
#86. I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell
#87. Is there a God or not?" "Is God good or not?" "Does he love me or not?" "Is God all powerful or not?" "Am I a blessing or a burden?" "Am I alone or is he with me?" And all of these questions were rooted in this one: "Do I have a heavenly Father or am I an orphan?
Lacey Sturm
#88. The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.
Leonard Jacobson
#89. Flurries early, pristine and pearly. Winter's come calling! Can we endure so premature a falling? Some may find this trend distressing- others bend to say a blessing over sage and onion dressing.
Old Farmer's Almanac
#90. To be rooted is to say, here am I nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing.
Kevin Hearne
#91. The fact that people are able to be positively impacted by any of my work is really just a blessing. And ultimately, that's what I want to do.
Justin Lee
#92. Everything that UCLA stands for, it's top of the food chain. So you either look at those things as burdens or you look at them as blessings. From day one, I've told my staff we're going to look at it as a blessing and do everything we can to build champions.
Steve Alford
#93. I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
Rachel Sklar
#94. Being loved is life's second greatest blessing; loving is the greatest.
Jack Hyles
#95. 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
#96. A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
John O'Donohue
#97. Love is a rare gift. It comes in many packages and forms, each one unique...each one a blessing.
R.G. Alexander
#98. Father, I know you're going to do some incredible things in your world today. Please give me the privilege of getting in on some of what you're doing." In other words, church leaders should stop praying, "Lord, bless what I'm doing" and start praying, "Lord, help me to do what you are blessing.
Rick Warren
#99. The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.
Laozi
#100. IF OUR PHONE CONVERSATION GETS DISCONNECTED, THERE'S NO NEED TO CALL BACK I get it. You get it. We take forever getting off the phone anyway. This was a blessing.
Mindy Kaling
