Quotes about Blessing

IRISH BLESSING   And may I conclude with a little Irish blessing — although, some suggest it's a curse: May those who love us, love us. And those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping. Speech on Administrative Goals to Senior Presidential Appointees, September 8, 1987

And isn't it true here too that those whom God blesses he damns in the same breath?

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.

Abraham believed. He did not believe that some day he would be blessed in the beyond, but that he would be happy here in the world.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.

Unable are the Loved to die, for love is immortality, the Reverend quoted at the end of the marriage service, a blessing not only for the happy couple exchanging vows, but also in remembrance of Jet, whose favorite poet was Emily Dickinson, and of Franny, who had sacrificed so much for those she loved.

The Lord may very well have removed His blessing from America the moment America stopped blessing us.