Top 1200 God Blessing Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

I've been smoking marijuana for 44 years now, and ... I think it's a tremendous blessing.

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

Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

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

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?

If we have faith in Jesus Christ the hardest as well as the easiest times in life can be a blessing.

Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.

I've been blessed so much in my own life and I want to spread that blessing to others who need it.

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.

In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.

I didn't think I'd be playing football at 31 so it's a blessing just to be able to come out here and compete.

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

Instagram is a blessing - I love to post about everything I'm doing. The explore page is magical.

I appreciate what I've been given, and the chance to play tennis for a living is definitely a blessing.

It's an amazing blessing to go to work every day with people I genuinely love.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

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

I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.

People tell me I'm not supposed to do the things that I do at my size. I just take it as a blessing.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.

Everything that I have earned in my life is just because of my guruji and his omnipotent blessing.

I have no complaints or grudges against my dad. Actually my father's remarriage was a blessing in disguise for us.

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands; it is his world. We sinners have messed things up and the amount of human division and cruelty is so terrible, but fortunately God is God.

I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.

When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.

The last thing we need to do when natural gas has been such a blessing is raise the severance tax.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.