Blessings

But, to make them blessings, you must act your part well; for they may, by your neglect, your ill-treatment, your evil example, be made to be the _contrary of blessings_; instead of pleasure, they may bring you pain; instead of making your heart glad, the sight of them may make it sorrowful; instead of being the staff of your old age, they may bring your gray hairs in grief to the grave. ❋ William Cobbett (1799)

So the moments in my life which I call blessings and gladness, and the moments in my life which I call sorrows and tortures, may work into each other, and they will do so if I take hold of them rightly, and use them as they ought to be used. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

It is one and the same Lord who is immolated on the altar and honored in the tabernacle, and who pours out his blessings from the tabernacle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In my own experience, I've found that love, and humor, and forgivenessthe twin blessings of compassion and blarney -- are all pretty effective at enabling a person to find a sense of solace. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being blamed for not merely inciting, but borderline justifying horrors done to us because of horrors “we've” done to someone else� — with his patently stupid blessings, is the thing he cannot take, because it casts him as not merely bellicose ... but a bellicose buffoon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, that's enough of a rant from me - again - blessings, ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the most important blessings is that I will be able to stay at home with our son until he is ready to go to pre-school or day care. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I would like to think there are 2 of them (love multiplied with blessings is a big WOW!). ❋ Anjali (2008)

Whatever challenges come to our life, as long as it ends in blessings and positive note, it does not matter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The fact that you are already able to see the hidden blessings is a testament to your strength! on April 23, 2008 at 9: 41 pm | Reply libby ❋ Unknown (2008)

One will call it cold and distant, another emotionally manipulative, a third sentimental, and the fourth will write to tell you that you have captured their experience exactly, and rain blessings upon your head for putting that in words upon the page. ❋ Matociquala (2008)

It was said that those who presented offerings with sincerity received blessings from the three immortals. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She called blessings on the name of Skeeter Jackson and swore a vow that others in the downtimer community would soon know the truth about the smiling, strange young man who made such a point to steal from the tourists yet never touched anything belonging to residents, and always treated downtimers with more courtesy than any 'eighty-sixer on the station, with the possible exceptions of Kit Carson and Malcolm Moore. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1996)

I would even like to declare that only then would it become the happy culture, truly rich in blessings, that it ought to be. ❋ Unknown (1984)

Happy, because their reign had been successful, and they were loved by their people, and had seen what they had undertaken flourish and become a happiness to those they ruled, so that it all fell back in blessings upon themselves. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Another wave for Mom Beck and Alec Walker and old Aunt Cindy, who stood behind them calling their blessings and good wishes after her. ❋ John Goss (1897)

The noise was deafening, some calling blessings on the King, others quarrelling and struggling to force away the prize from the happy one who had caught, in the passing shower, a rupee or two in his drapery. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)