Quotes About Blessings

#1. To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

James Ellis

#2. When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.

Joel Osteen

#3. When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

Nouman Ali Khan

#4. Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

Bernie Siegel

#5. I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Dale Carnegie

#6. Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings - even 'all that he hath.'

Elaine S. Dalton

#7. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance. Come in faith and you are welcome to all covenant blessings.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift from God and the lives of those entrusted to his care as the true blessings they are. A culture that affirms life will not practice contraception nor will it murder its progeny.

Judie Brown

#9. Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.

William Kent Krueger

#10. America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

Barack Obama

#11. Life isn't about the things you can't have... It is about those blessings you do find along the way.

A. Lee Martinez

#12. You know, I truly believe adoption is one of the greatest unheralded blessings in the world," she continues, her expression turning earnest. "Think how beautiful it is to give a child a home and to become a family because you choose to! Maybe that's the best way to make a family, don't you think?

Kristin Harmel

#13. Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine functions - come through obedience and faithfulness to priesthood authority and covenants made.

James E. Faust

#14. It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

Plautus

#15. Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.

Woodrow M. Kroll

#16. Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step ... To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call me to dance, to believe again, even amid my pain, that God will orchestrate and guide my life.

Henri Nouwen

#17. [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

#18. Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

Ann Voskamp

#19. I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

Franklin Pierce

#20. Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

Bing Crosby

#21. Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#22. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#23. Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

Habeeb Akande

#24. If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others

Sunday Adelaja

#25. I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Ray Lamontagne

#26. You can. It's not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of doing it - making the decision to bend that iron will of yours in God's direction so that He can hear your prayers and unleash blessings.

Julie Lessman

#27. No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

Isaac Watts

#28. Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small.

Robert Herrick

#29. He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.

Rebecca DeMarino

#30. The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.

Goswami Kriyananda

#31. To seek the fulfillment of ourselves in God - that is, to seek only the blessings and refreshing of God, but not seek God for himself - this type of spirituality is the enemy of the cross of Christ. - ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Michael Brown

#32. If you look to the downtrodden and wonder why they can't pull themselves out of poverty and get a nice job like you, you are committing the just-world fallacy. You are ignoring the unearned blessings of your station.

David McRaney

#33. But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

Theodore Roethke

#34. War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

#35. The blessings God gives us must in turn become blessings to others, because Christians are supposed to be channels, not reservoirs. To receive God's blessings and then selfishly keep them is to violate one of the basic principles of the Christian life.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#36. This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

Charles Olson

#37. Everybody must decide to reach a state where you everyday see the blessings of God manifesting.

Nirmala Srivastava

#38. If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

Charles Spurgeon

#39. We seek your blessings and we seek your support. On one side there is the Shahzada and on the other side there is a tea seller. There is Namdaar and there is a Kamdaar. But we assure that after assuming responsibility we will not rest for a minute. All the time will be for the people.

Narendra Modi

#40. And fathers, ... listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.

M. Russell Ballard

#41. The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#42. If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups.

Jen Hatmaker

#43. Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?

Horace Walpole

#44. Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Walter Lang

#45. My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, And to think I was always worried that you didn't have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

Patricia Briggs

#46. It's easy to feel depressed by focusing on problems. Count your blessings while others are adding up their worries and you will be much happier. Attitude is EVERYTHING!

Karen Gibbs

#47. Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Alexandre Dumas

#48. Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge

T.F. Hodge

#49. I dwell on God's blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. Life just throws you places, and if you wait, if you listen, you can see the blessings.

Jaycee Clark

#51. God, you are within me and with me right now and you give me comfort. You give me peace. You give me strength. You give me all the blessings I need to live an abundant and blessed life.

Paul McManus

#52. Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

Thomas S. Monson

#53. God's faithful love for us will remain forever and His covenant of blessings will never be broken.

Euginia Herlihy

#54. Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

Ezra Taft Benson

#55. I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.

Scott Turow

#56. Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you
blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Regina Maria Roche

#57. Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

Horace

#58. Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#59. For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

Ryan Lewis

#60. The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

William Jennings Bryan

#61. Some people come in your life as blessings, the others come as lessons.

Anonymous

#62. I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.

Tim Tebow

#63. A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Dean Inge

#64. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter

#65. With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.

Neil L. Andersen

#66. When you find that God is absent, you do many things. You temporize, for a while. You buy a new prayer book, hoping that perhaps some Celtic blessings might do the trick.

Lauren F. Winner

#67. There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#68. This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#69. We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.

Amit Ray

#70. For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#71. Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.

C.C. Hunter

#72. The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.

Kim Edwards

#73. None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.

James E. Faust

#74. Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

John Cornyn

#75. Children are blessings not burdens in our families, our society, and in our world.

Leta B.

#76. In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#77. Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

Hosea Ballou

#78. She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes.

Callie Hunter

#79. If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?

Carlos A. Godoy

#80. One of the blessings that comes from paying a full tithing is developing faith to live an even higher law. To live in the celestial kingdom, we must live the law of consecration. There we must be able to feel that all we are and all we have belong to God.

Henry B. Eyring

#81. Sometimes spiritual blessings are much more important than most material goals we pursue in life.

Sunday Adelaja

#82. We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

Tamera Alexander

#83. Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach.

Paulo Coelho

#84. Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.

Radhe Maa

#85. Blessings come into the areas of a person's life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.

Sunday Adelaja

#86. Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.

George Eliot

#87. I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Dale Evans

#88. If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

Ibn Ata Allah

#89. In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping with God's purpose, ye added or subtracted from the blessings ye might be conscious of in materiality. Thus karma is builded. And the law is perfect - what ye sow, ye reap.

Edgar Cayce

#90. I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.

Zig Ziglar

#91. And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.

Dallin H. Oaks

#92. In the name of the Clave," he said, "I ask entry to this holy place. In the name of the Battle That Never Ends, I ask the use of your weapons. And in the name of the Angel Raziel, I ask your blessings on my mission against the darkness.

Cassandra Clare

#93. When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#94. That best of blessings, a contented mind.

Horace

#95. Be thankful for the blessings already on their way. And don't be surprised if one of your blessings is to be the blessing for someone else.

Charles F. Glassman

#96. Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

Ezra Taft Benson

#97. O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

William Ellery Channing

#98. Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.

Martha H. Tingey

#99. In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

A.W. Tozer

#100. To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough