blessing

We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

Beyond the wall of the unreal city _ there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then __ay your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.

May hope rise within you. May peace wash over you.

May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.

May you hear the voice of wisdom.Listening, may you act with trust.

Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made.

Be careful of the kind of people who you seek advice from. Some people are not happy with your blessings in life, and would do anything to stop you from embracing your future blessings.

Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.