Quotes about bless
blessing iron church
The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws... Stephen Fry
blessing effort soul
Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul. Sri Chinmoy
blessed talking capacity
God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.
blessing years together-again
Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year. Ruta Sepetys
blessed car atmosphere
To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning furnace, every gasoline-burning car, every coal-burning generating plant, with renewable, climate-friendly energy sources. The earth's fossil fuel resources have blessed us with a level of prosperity and abundance unimaginable a century ago. Today they are propelling us forward into a century of disintegration. Ross Gelbspan
blessed barns clean
If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? Ross Perot
blessed player careers
The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time. Russ Grimm
blessed healing reflection
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration? Thomas Merton
blessing disaster my-blessing
I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters Ray LaMontagne
blessing guarantees-that boredom
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? Raoul Vaneigem
blessing challenges way
In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse. Randy Alcorn
blessing men people
Ironically, many people can't afford to give precisely because they're not giving. If we pay our debt to God first, then we will incur His blessing to help us pay our debts to men. But when we rob God to pay men, we rob ourselves of God's blessing.
blessing giving collaboration
God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
blessing rights evil
The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil. Thomas Jefferson
blessed people honor
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
blessing sometimes reunion
Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered. Robin Hobb
blessing giving people
Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves. Robert Rodriguez
blessed thinking artist
As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride. Robert Redford
blessed flip use
She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it. Robert Crais
blessed epidemics law
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched. Richard Owen
blessed love-you air
We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool. -The Christmas List- p. 296 Richard Paul Evans
blessing seems
Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
blessing joy natural
Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.
blessed law ideas
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention. Robert M. Pirsig
blessed thinking insanity
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.
blessing epcot land
Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine. Walt Disney
blessing giving support
Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter. Virginia Satir
blessing thinking heaven
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them. Washington Irving
blessing perfection people
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
blessed thinking games
I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out. William Styron
blessing government humans
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. William Ralph Inge
blessed laughing looks
When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed. William Butler Yeats
blessed self common
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all