Blessings Quotes

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it; and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction! The unthinkful heart, like my finger in the sand, 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

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. - Edwin H. Chapin

Certain of our blessings can never change. The important things of life will not perish. In whatever brave new world emerges from this chaos, homes will be created, good deeds will be done and sacrifices will be made. God will be reverently worshipped in many a church and chapel.  Hospitals, libraries and colleges will be organized and endowed. The greatest things will endure - faith, hope and love, and the moral nature in man. - Claude M. Fuess

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. - Samuel Johnson

The private and personal blessings we enjoy, the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity, deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. - Jeremy Taylor

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for the most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praise. - Izaak Walton

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death. - Solon

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. - H. Moore

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

The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. - Saadi

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. - Izaak Walton

Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just.  - Plato

How blessings brighten as they take their flight! - Young

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