Quotes by Blessing Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being. Arnold Bennett blessing heart may May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself. Aron Ralston boulders blessing may Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them. Arthur Frederick Saunders courtesy kind blessing What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America. Arthur Helps blessing discovery america There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing. Arthur Hugh Clough wicked done blessing The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley suffering blessing may In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means. Arthur Schopenhauer blessing mean children Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. Arthur Schopenhauer boredom blessing want Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer swings pain blessing In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met. Arthur Schopenhauer gratitude blessing way Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him. Arthur Tappan Pierson prayer blessing time Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself. Arthur W. Pink blessing rivers running Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has (Heb. 13:5). Arthur W. Pink blessing christian men Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing. Arthur W. Pink design prayer blessing Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it! Arthur W. Pink blessing christian wise The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God. Arthur Wallis kingdoms spirit blessing Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion. Arthur Young taken blessing believe One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters. Asghar Farhadi daughter blessing two Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing. August Strindberg vision blessing sometimes People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt. Ayn Rand blessing knowledge thinking «4567891011121314»