Quotes about Blessings
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.
— Wendell Berry
We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark. Sabbaths 1999 VI
— Wendell Berry
Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot
— Wendell Berry
VI We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark.
— Wendell Berry
God grant you your quota of smiles.
— William Goldman
Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.
— Chip Ingram
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
— Henry Ward Beecher
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart... 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