#bless

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#calamity #chaos #confusion #control #good-intentions

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#inspirational #prepare #protection #religious #inspirational

...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#christian #help #inspirational #love #selfless-love

What others see in you now is just a MILD chapter of you; the WILD version of your brand is yet to be visible. Just dare and will show up! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#brand #branding #dare #dream-big #food-for-thought

I am really blessed and very grateful for it. ↗

— Pam Grier

#blessed #grateful #i #i am #really

We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe. ↗

— Amit Ray

#interconnection #kindness #love #life

Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother. ↗

— Beth Moore

#life

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing. Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest! ↗

— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#children #music

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#artist #blessed #blessed be #child #does

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#believe #blesses #eager #feet #first