#bless

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. ↗

— Philip Wylie

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins -- they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. The day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of to-day. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. But above and over all this, is the development of mind. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of to-day -- of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago. These blessings did not fall from the skies. These benefits did not drop from the outstretched hands of priests. They were not found in cathedrals or behind altars -- neither were they searched for with holy candles. They were not discovered by the closed eyes of prayer, nor did they come in answer to superstitious supplication. They are the children of freedom, the gifts of reason, observation and experience -- and for them all, man is indebted to man. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#blessings #debt #science #theology #art

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

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

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

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The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them. ↗

— William Laud

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