Quotes about Blessed

Happy and blessed is the person who knows their gifts and operates in them. Miserable and stressed is the person who tries to operate in someone else's gifts.

Blessed be the day that I began A pilgrim for to be; And blessed also be the man Who to that place moved me. 'Tis true, it was long before I began To seek to live forever; But now I run as fast as I can 'Tis better late than never. Our tears to joy, our fears to faith, Are turned, as we see; Thus our beginning (as one says) Shows what our end will be.

Let the Most Blessed be my guide, if it be His will, Unto His gate, into His fold, and up to His holy hill. And let Him never allow me to turn aside or veer, From his free grace and holy ways, whatever I suffer. And let Him gather those of mine whom I have left behind; Lord, please make them be thine, with all their heart and mind.

O! what did I now see in that blessed sixth of John: And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.  John vi. 37.  Now I began to consider with myself, that God hath a bigger mouth to speak with, than I had a heart to conceive with; I thought also with myself, that He spake not His words in haste, or in an unadvised heat, but with infinite wisdom and judgment, and in very truth and faithfulness.  2 Sam. iii. 28.

It doth not say, the Lord gives gifts and glory, but the Lord gives grace and glory; and blessed is such an one, to whom the Lord gives grace, true grace; for that is a certain forerunner of glory.

Ben Franklin quipped, Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall receive it. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world.

I just feel lucky.

Think too about what the promise contains, before you refuse to take comfort from it. It speaks of a certain time when good training will bear fruit — when a child is old. Surely, there is comfort in this. You may not see with your own eyes the result of careful training, but you don't know what blessed fruits will spring from it long after you are dead and gone.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed.

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. (PSALM 34:8)

For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (30:15—18)