Blessing Quotes

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.