Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Sobran

What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

Padmasree Warrior

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

Oswald Chambers

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

Mark Batterson

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

R. C. Sproul

But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

Publilius Syrus

When reason rules, money is a blessing.

John Armstrong

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

John Ashcroft

Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

Okky Madasari

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

Lucretia Mott

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Margaret Keane

I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

Mary Renault

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Baker Eddy

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Marvin J. Ashton

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight.

Paul Newman

From salad dressings all blessings flow.

Oswald Chambers

Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift.

Oswald Chambers

God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

Oswald Chambers

If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.

Oswald Chambers

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

Oswald Chambers

God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

Michel de Montaigne

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Marianne Williamson

Bless more; blame less.

Mario Andretti

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted career. I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

Mario Andretti

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

Chris Shiflett

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

Chris Hemsworth

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

George Washington

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

George Meredith

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

Jorge Posada

Some days are a blessing when you wake up and you say, 'Wow, I feel good today.' Some days are like: 'Wow, I feel bad. I got no chance today.' You tape it up and you go.

Jonny Lang

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.