Blessings Sayings, and Quotes

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

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

Prayers go up and blessings come down.
Yiddish Proverb

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock

May your days be many and your troubles be few.
May all God's blessings descend upon you.
May peace be within you may your heart be strong.
May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.
Irish Blessing

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
Og Mandino

Take 5 minutes and sit quietly and reflect on all the blessings in your life.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Valentines Day is NOT only for Lovers

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
John McLeod

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.
Author Unknown, from Be Thankful

I am thankful to God from whom all blessings flow, and to my family and friends who enrich my life.
Author Unknown, from May This Encourage You, Always

When you think of life, think first about the blessings you have. Don't focus on misfortunes, for they are but a faint shadow.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Many Blessings

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Helen Keller

Count blessings like children count stars.
Author Unknown, from Life is for Living

It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Bible, Acts 20:35

I am thankful to God from whom all blessings flow, and to my family and friends who enrich my life.
Author Unknown, from May This Encourage You, Always

Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.
Menander

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.
Richard Bach

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
Oprah Winfrey

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing.
German Proverb

I'm blessed indeed, The world is mine; Oh, God, forgive me when I whine.
Red Foley, from Found in a Book

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
Mary Kay Ash

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
William Arthur Ward

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

It can also be said that the Bible is a book of success and abundant blessings.
Greg Tharpe, from The Godsend

How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected?
Author Unknown, from Is Packaging Imporant To You?

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Titus Livy

May the good Saints protect you and bless you today, and may troubles ignore you each step of the way.
Irish Blessing

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W. T. Purkiser

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
William Arthur Ward

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.
John McLeod

Today, many will break through the barriers of the past by looking at the blessings of the present. Why not you?
Steve Maraboli, from Why Not You?

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

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white".
Bing Crosby

Every burden is a blessing.
Walt Kelly

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates

Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.
Menander

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall

Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed."
Angel Blessing

What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
Seneca

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson

God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.
Ezra Taft Benson

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