Quotes about Blessings

You can't take life for granted.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

The tricky part for me is remembering to give God all the glory and keep none for myself. That's why "we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."8 Boaz took no credit for his kindness, nor did Ruth. Even Naomi, who at first blessed the landowner, praised God when she learned the man's name. We can follow her fine example, giving God the credit for "every good and perfect gift."9

and he began to speak, praising God. Luke 1:64 He didn't ask God why he'd been silenced, nor did he bemoan the many conversations he'd missed. Instead, Zechariah "shouted out praises to God

Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

What gifts you had, you were meant to share. What you set out into the world came back to you threefold.