Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Wylie

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

John Updike

All blessings are mixed blessings.

John Suckling

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...

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.

Laurence Sterne

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.

Joko Beck

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

Nick Vujicic

You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.

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.

The children just love getting to paint. It is a blessing to see the progress the children have made and to see them having so much fun doing this.

The children go home and start correcting their parents and then the parents don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.

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. ...'

All children are special. But she's really, really special. She's taught us about life and what's important about life. It's a blessing God's given her to us.

Philip Sidney

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

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. . . .

Max Lucado

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

Our signature - it's not publicized in our program but kind of our standing-ovation song - is a song called Irish Blessing . I think with our voices we are actually looking to bless people's lives.

Actually, I just look at it as a blessing to tell you the truth,

Janet Napolitano

As we move deeper into the 21st Century, the need for a quality public school system will become more of an economic issue and more of a civil rights issue. Because, as our economy relies more on brains and less on brawn, the only way everyone can secure all the blessings of liberty is to receive a quality education.

Joseph Addison

A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes

Always remember to forget the troubles that passed away, But never forget the blessings that come each day.

Marcus Aurelius

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

This is not just the Pope's blessing. He's giving the blessing for God.

This is something I'll present to the board and they will either give their blessing or not.

The weather was a blessing in that it helped blunt the increase in prices.

This garden has been a blessing for me.

Jim Kelly

This event is a celebration of the blessing of children in our lives. Parents and kids have a lot of fun at all the activities, but the whole idea is to stress the importance of loving and valuing children.

This is a blessing for me, to be able to play in this.