Special Blessings Quotes

#1. Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time ... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.

Alexandra Stoddard

#2. Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

Grant Von Harrison

#3. 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

#4. The need is what is necessary.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him - at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.

Dallas Willard

#6. Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

Mason Cooley

#7. Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
And fretting grief the enemy of life;
All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

Edmund Spenser

#8. Embrace diversity. Unite - Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.

Octavia E. Butler

#9. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

#10. Opinions aren't true just because you have them.

Sandy Snavely

#11. I'm not the first man or the last
who had a thirst to leave the past.

Rod McKuen

#12. Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

Kevin Bleyer

#13. I simply want to love and to live, and those are the purposes of my life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Blood always aids blood, my friend.

David Gemmell

#15. Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.

Fran Lebowitz

#16. In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Bobby Charlton

#17. Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.
I don't know why, Fern. I tried to have more children, but sometimes we are given something so special, so wonderful, that one is enough.

Amy Harmon

#18. Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I'd have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.

Steven Wright