Quotes about Blessing
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.
- Ann Voskamp
I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers.
- Mike Huckabee
I wanted to communicate how important it is to love on the people that are in our lives and to take every day with someone as a blessing.
- Chord Overstreet
I enjoy what I do so much. There's people out there who don't like what they do, but I'm fortunate. I have nothing to complain about.
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life.
- Thomas Monson
Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.
- Jacky Rosen
I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
- Richard Baxter
If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
May the God of peace make you whole and holy, may you be kept safe in body, heart, and mind, and thus ready for the presence. God has called you and will not fail you" (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Do a violent people want, create and need a violent God, or has the textual presentation of a sometimes violent God legitimated and even blessed our own violent history?
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
- Rick Warren