Quotes on Blessed

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

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

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

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

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.