Bless Quotes - Page 36

• The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to go there. Why? Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Sacrifice, Blessing, Meaning Something

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• My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

  Phil Robertson

  Prayer, Being Thankful, Dynasty

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• Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Pride, Oneness

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1063, Aum Publications

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• How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

  Basilea Schlink

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

  Thomas Hood

  Sympathy, Condolences, Heart

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.295

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• May the Lord bless you real good.

  Billy Graham

  Real, May, Lord

  Billy Graham (1951). “America's hour of decision: featuring a life story of Billy Graham, and stories of his evangelistic campaigns in Portland, Ore., Minneapolis, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Shreveport, La., Memphis, and the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California”

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• No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

  Jeremiah Wright

  America, God Bless, Damn

  "Why Rev. Wright Was Wrong for Oprah". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2008.

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• Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Journey, Hiking

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• God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Long, Reign

  Benjamin Franklin, Joseph A. Leo Lemay (1997). “Autobiography, Poor Richard, and later writings: letters from London, 1757-1775, Paris, 1776-1785, Philadelphia, 1785-1790, Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1758, the autobiography”

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• Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Sacrifice, All Things

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• Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Order, Errors

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• May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.

  George H. W. Bush

  May, God Bless, Regard

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• From the pioneers we can learn to have faith and trust God; we can learn to be compassionate to others; we can learn that work and industry not only bless us temporally but spiritually; and that happiness is available to us no matter our circumstances.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Pioneers, Have Faith, Matter

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• Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Compassion, Hands

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• A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, Blessing, Community

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• A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

  Rick Warren

  Perfect, Ministry, Use

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• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Procrastination, Caring, Unfinished Business

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• The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mother, Father

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.446, Delphi Classics

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• He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Humble, Shows

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

  Joseph Addison

  Stars, Thinking, Luxury

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.400

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• Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Moving, Majority

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• May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel, in Asia and in the whole world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Joy, World

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• Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

  William Herndon

  Mother, Parent, God Bless

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• May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

  Pope Francis

  May, Moments, Lord

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

  Richard Adams

  Want, Holes, Bottom

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.35, Oneworld Publications

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