Hannah More Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

  Hannah More

  Gratitude, Blessing, Littles

• What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

  Hannah More (1857). “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain: And Other Tales”, p.333

• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

  Hannah More

  Grateful, Humble, Blessing

• Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

  Hannah More

  Wisdom, Eye, Blessing

  Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.112

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