51 Blessing Quotes
Short blessing quotes
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon quote #76 God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
George MeredithGeorge Meredith quote #26 Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.
Nathaniel CottonNathaniel Cotton quote #5 You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore quote #186 Blessed are those who have no talent!
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson quote #45 Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SocratesSocrates quote #39 'Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.'
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel quote #14 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens quote #77
More blessing quotes
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.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler quote #55 No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
James Russell LowellJames Russell Lowell quote #9 Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
John MuirJohn Muir quote #56 Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran quote #42 [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.]
Giacomo CasanovaGiacomo Casanova quote #34 Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
Hillary ClintonHillary Clinton quote #53 Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
Ignatius of LoyolaIgnatius of Loyola quote #7 Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Robert HerrickRobert Herrick quote #21 In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. - We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln quote #52 Some hae meat and cann eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns quote #45 Here a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand. Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat, and on us all.
Robert HerrickRobert Herrick quote #1 I die-but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.
Lord ByronLord Byron quote #73 Good-night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours, While sea abides, and land, And earth's foundations stand, And heaven endures.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman quote #48 I am, gay creature, With pardon of your deities, a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John (dramatist) FordJohn (dramatist) Ford quote #13 O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge quote #62 May God Almighty give our work His blessing, strengthen our purpose, and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not for ourselves but for Germany.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler quote #20 I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Ann TaylorAnn Taylor quote #3 Let Ariel learn a blessing for Caliban and Caliban drink dew from the lotus open upon the waters.
Denise LevertovDenise Levertov quote #23 My Brother William was married to Mary Hutchinson:At a little after 8 o'clock I saw them go down the avenue towards the Church. William had parted from me upstairs. [deleted: I gave him the wedding ring - with how deep a blessing! I took it from my forefinger where I had worn it the whole of the night before - he slipped it again onto my finger and blessed me fervently].
Dorothy WordsworthDorothy Wordsworth quote #6 The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy: She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy.
Dorothy WordsworthDorothy Wordsworth quote #10 Therefore to this dog will I, Tenderly not scornfully, Render praise and favor: With my hand upon his head, Is my benediction said Therefore and for ever.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningElizabeth Barrett Browning quote #5 Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
George FoxGeorge Fox quote #1 In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts, And fattened lives that of their sweetness tire In a world of flying loves and fading lusts, It is something to be sure of a desire. Lo, blessed are our ears for they have heard; Yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen: Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird And the lightning. It is something to have been.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonGilbert Keith Chesterton quote #179 At the penultimate moment, his words, his only ones, words wholly unobstructed in the utterance were these-'God bless Captain Vere!'
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville quote #57 Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.
HoraceHorace quote #1 Poet, Singer, Great Heart, May our God bless your name, And the womb that held you, and the breasts that gave you milk. And may God forgive us all.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran quote #49 Blessed are those eyes that have seen more water than any man! Blessed be that haughty mind that aimed at the greatest hope! May you be blessed who row the current your life long and now with dry unfreshened lips descend to Hades to find the hidden deathless springs and slake your thirst! My son, it's death who keeps and pours the deathless waters.
Nikos KazantzakisNikos Kazantzakis quote #116 The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell quote #23 All of our divine duties are blessings of God but we think they are obligations.
Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah Khomeini quote #57 Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
Washington IrvingWashington Irving quote #32 May she become a flourishing hidden tree That all her thoughts may like the linnet be, And have no business but dispensing round Their magnanimities of sound, Nor but in merriment begin a chase, Nor but in merriment a quarrel.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats quote #98 It does not escape me that I am blessed to be included in this tale of a billion human conflicts and singular resolution.
Don MillerDon Miller quote #6 Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley quote #2