Quotes About Blessings

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.  ~ Edgar Allan Poe


It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.  ~ A.W. Tozer


If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.  ~ Maya Angelou


Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.  ~ Charles Dickens


He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.  ~ Helen Keller


Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.  ~ Mark Twain


Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.  ~ Ruth Ann Schabacker


Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.  ~ Alexander Pope


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.  ~ Winston S. Churchill


An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.  ~ A.W. Tozer


When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.  ~ C.S. Lewis


Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.  ~ Jack Kerouac


My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!  ~ Thomas Jefferson


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.  ~ Eric Hoffer


Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.  ~ Abraham Heschel


But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.  ~
Rumi


Every dog has its day, but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.  ~ Winifred Gordon


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


The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.  ~ Socrates


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.  ~ Eric Hoffer


If you count all your assets, you always show profit.  ~ Robert Quillen


Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.  ~ Groucho Marx


All that we behold is full of blessings.  ~ William Wordsworth


You need bruises to know blessings and I have known both.  ~ Francis Shand Kydd


We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.  ~ Neal A. Maxwell


Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.  ~ Marianne Williamson


My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  ~ Socrates