Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sienna Miller

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

Sienna Miller

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.

Sholom Aleichem

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

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.

John Elway

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

John Densmore

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

John Ortberg

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

John O'Donohue

When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.

John O'Donohue

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

John Calvin

If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.

John Calvin

Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

John Calvin

It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

John Calvin

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Joel McHale

I don't know how (producer) Dan Harmon put that together but he did. Everyone gets along and we all babysit Chevy Chase (laughs) and it all works out. Plus we are given a lot of freedom to riff off each other and compliment each other's comedic style. The group is so talented, whether it be Donald Glover or Allison Brie and now Jim Rash who plays the Dean is finally a full member of the cast - oh my gosh, he is so funny. I call him Rumplestiltskin; he can spin comedy out of anything. I am in such a blessed situation - if only more people would watch it.

Joe Hill

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

Francois Fenelon

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

Francois Fenelon

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Francois Fenelon

People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Elaine Dundy

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

John Bunyan

Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved our Lord when they were in the world, and that have left all for his holy name; and he hath sent us to fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their desired journey, that they may go in and look their Redeemer in the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, 'Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'

John Bunyan

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

John Bunyan

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

Joel Osteen

I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.

Joel Osteen

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

Joel Osteen

I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

Joel Osteen

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

Joel Osteen

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Joel Osteen

If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you.

Joel Osteen

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.