Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, Two, Differences

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.133

• Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Freedom, Blessing, People

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

• Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Blessing, Sometimes

• Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, Men, Perfect

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

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