quotations about blessings
No human blessing lasts forever.
PLAUTUS
Curculio
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
JESUS
Acts 20:35
Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed,
Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes
Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
Blessings crown the head of the righteous.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 10:6
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
ERIC HOFFER
Reflections on the Human Condition
When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
ROSEMARY CLOONEY
"Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep"
Blessedness is nothing else but the contentment of spirit, which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Ethics
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
In proportion as it blesses, blest.
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Man
Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.
JULIA CAMERON
Blessings: Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
C.S. LEWIS
letter to Mary Van Deusen, August 3, 1959
When the praises go up, the blessings come down.
CHANCE THE RAPPER
"Blessings"
'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
Art of Preserving Health
But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.
LAURA SCHROFF
An Invisible Thread
Bless the four corners of this little house,
And be the lintel blest;
And bless the hearth, and bless the board,
And bless each place of rest.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
House Blessing
Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
MOSES
Numbers 24:9
Reflect upon your present blessings--of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
CHARLES DICKENS
Sketches by Boz
I think blessings are like a soft, gentle rain falling down from the sky. They fall lightly upon us and all around us every day. Too often, people are so busy waiting to witness a miracle in tsunami proportions that they are blind to gentle, constant falling rain of daily blessings.
GORDON L. EWELL
Gordy-Isms
A spring of love gush'd from my heart,
And I bless'd them unaware.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts