#bless

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#clap #extinguisher #irony #unhappily #upon

But can one be a blessing merely by being cheerful? Yes; moral beauty of any kind exerts a silent influence for good. It is like a sweet flower by the wayside, which has a benediction for everyone who passes by. A legend tells how one day in Galilee the useful corn spurned the lilies because they fed no one’s hunger. “One cannot earn a living just by being sweet,” said the proud cereal. The lilies said nothing in reply, only seemed the sweeter, then the Master came that way; and while his disciples rested at his feet, and the rustling corn invited them to eat, he said, “Children, the life is more than meat. Consider the lilies, how beautiful they grow.” It certainly seemed worth while then just to be sweet, for it pleased the Master. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#cheer #influence #beauty

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#blessed #character #could #day #god

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#curse #either #forgets #greatest #greatest blessing

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#bless #commitments #converting #going #keep

Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard. ↗

— Bob Seger

#healthy #i #just #regard #strong

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain. ↗

— Anna Seward

#fate #my soul #remain #shroud #soul

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ↗

— Tacitus

#blessing #committed #crime #few #individuals

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. ↗

— George Takei

#been #blessed #career #civic #i

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. ↗

— David Talbot

#blessing #dollars #duke #kept #lot