Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

Henri Nouwen

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

Henri Nouwen

As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.

Henri Nouwen

To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

Henri Nouwen

We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

Hedy Lamarr

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Hesiod

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

Heather Matarazzo

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

Hideki Tojo

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high

Henry Ward Beecher

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Henry Ward Beecher

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Henry Ward Beecher

The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as if the flavor were so good to itself that its own lips watered!) of a mild and modest warmth, the sugar suggesting jelly, yet not jellied, the morsels of apple neither dissolved nor yet in original substance, but hanging as it were in a trance between the spirit and the flesh of applehood...then, O blessed man, favored by all the divinities! eat, give thanks, and go forth, 'in apple-pie order!'"

Henry Ward Beecher

Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

Henry Ward Beecher

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.

Henry Fielding

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Henry Fielding

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Joan Didion

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

Joan Didion

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

Jim James

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

John Henry Newman

A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.

Alan Bennett

That's a great benefit. After we chose the cast, we educated them into the play. We taught them. One of the blessings of being at the National Theatre is that you have a very long rehearsal time.

Atticus Shaffer

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Benigno Aquino III

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

Benjamin Disraeli

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

Those, whom True Guru has not blessed with Your Name, are poor idiots, who die and are reborn

Those who have found God - blessed is their coming into this world.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.