Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stonewall Jackson

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

Sonny Perdue

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Solon

As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

Stephen Fry

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...

Sri Chinmoy

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

Ruta Sepetys

Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year.

T. D. Jakes

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

T. D. Jakes

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

Ray LaMontagne

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Raoul Vaneigem

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Randy Alcorn

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

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.

Randy Alcorn

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

Thomas Jefferson

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

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

Rick Perry

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

Rollo May

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Rumi

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

Rumi

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

Tom Robbins

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Tom Freston

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

Steve Harvey

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

Tasha Smith

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.

Stephen Mitchell

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Stanley Kunitz

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Tim Tebow

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Thomas Jefferson

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

Thomas Goodwin

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

Victoria Osteen

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Vernon Davis

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.