"Fred has sense and knowledge enough to make him respectable, if he likes, in some good worldly business, but I can never imagine him preaching and exhorting, and pronouncing blessings, and praying by the sick, without feeling as if I were looking at a caricature.
The familiar words of the General Thanksgiving came quite naturally into her mind, and she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgment.
"Just thank God for your blessings and ask Him humbly for the things you want.
Altogether, the situation was comfortable, and not without the touch of hope that is often sweeter than arrived blessings.
For it was September of the year and of the soul, in which season the house's good man comes to consider roof gardens and stenographers as vanities, and to desire the return of his mate and the more durable blessings of decorum and the moral excellencies.
While he lay thus, meditating upon his blessings, little brown cottontails would shyly frolic through the yard; a covey of white-topknotted blue quail would run past, in single file, twenty yards away; a paisano bird, out hunting for tarantulas, would hop upon the fence and salute him with sweeping flourishes of its long tail.
I'm thankful to the good God and Father of us all I've got you back, that's long-suffering and merciful to them that believe on Him and keep His word, though goodness knows I'm unworthy of it, but if only the worthy ones got His blessings and had His hand to help them over the rough places, there's few enough would smile here or ever enter into His rest when the long night comes.
Suddenly the minister shouted at the top of his voice: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow—sing!
We learn that in Maharashtra, effigies of Bali in rice-flour and cow-dung are prepared by womenfolk who worship and invoke his blessings.
Know of it in a surge of hope, The blessings that are bountiful.
" Moral Lesson: We should try to take eyes off our problems and Enjoy each one of our blessings, Each moment that life gives us.
I was so awed at how destiny arranged all the incidents in our lives to come up for blessings that it has prepared ahead of us!
Be grateful We heard a lot about the benefits of thankfulness in the last decade, and that is backed by science: Counting our blessings protects us against anxiety and depression and boosts optimism.
For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warm greetings to my friends whom I miss so much.
Seek the blessings and guidance of a higher authority and they might just show you the right path.
If you remember to be grateful for the blessings of your life, you start to feel more connected to yourself and others.
We express love and gratitude to others,and increasingly appreciate the wonder of life and the blessings we do have.
The universe is waiting to shower happy blessings on you.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
"My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings; the black is for you to let go.
