Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Shelby Spong

Religion is a mixed blessing.

James Robertson

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

John Piper

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

Martin Luther

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

Martin Luther

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

Martin Luther

Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.

Martin Luther

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

Martin Luther

May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.

Martin Luther

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

Mark Neumann

I don't want to consider myself a TV5 favorite, but it's a blessing that I have more shows than the others.

Moses

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Philip Sidney

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Philip Roth

Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

Peyton Manning

Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.

Pharrell Williams

I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed.

Paulo Coelho

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Paulo Coelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

Marianne Moore

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

You can write whatever you want, but that game was exactly what it was. That's how we played. This is probably a blessing in disguise, for us to get it out of our system.

These are positive initiatives, and bless 'em for doing it.

These guys may not be blessed with size, but they make up for it in other ways. (Luster) has overcome that because he just goes out and wins.

These guys keep me young, ... Any time you can see a young man grow up to be an old vet, it's always a blessing because you always talk about, 'I remember when the game was so fast for you. ...'

Skip Bertman

This has been the toughest year in the history of Louisiana. God bless you fans, and God bless Louisiana.

Mignon McLaughlin

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

John Woolman

From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.

John Wooden

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

John Wooden

I've been blessed in so many ways.

John Quincy Adams

And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.

John Owen

Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul about, what he has already done in you; and be ashamed. Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness than this: That the blessed Spirit, who has undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoices when his temple is kept undefiled.

Joe Gibbs

I can definitely say that things did bounce our way at times. We were blessed tonight,

Mark Calcavecchia

I don't like to practice, I don't like to work out, ... There are a lot of things that I should be doing that I don't like to do. I was blessed with a God-given talent to play golf, is all I can say.