Blessing Quotes - page 4

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. (Golda Meir)
Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will. View quote
William Wordsworth
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day. View quote
Lewis Mumford
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous. View quote
Ben Stiller
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have. View quote
Drew Barrymore
There is no God,” the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us It's better only guessing. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky. View quote
R. S. Thomas
It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them. View quote
Stefan Zweig
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. (J. M. Barrie)
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth]. View quote
Plato
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces. View quote
Henry Ford
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist. View quote
Albert Einstein
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. View quote
Jonah Lehrer
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. View quote
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Percy," my mom said. "I give you my blessing." "Be safe brother!" Tyson pleaded. "Enchiladas!" Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much. View quote
Rick Riordan
Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked. "It only works on wild animals." "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned. "Hey!" I protested. View quote
Rick Riordan
Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. (Rick Riordan)
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. View quote
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing. View quote
Jerry Bridges