#blessed

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

— George Takei

#been #blessed #career #civic #i

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#blessed #cursed #doing #i #i am

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#blessed #i #people #work

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic. ↗

— Rachel True

#afterwards #also #being #blessed #fantastic

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #eternal-child #god

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us. ↗

— Karl Barth

#christianity #god #grace #holy-spirit #incarnation

The fact that she was still alive felt wrong, out of balance. She didn't feel special, or protected, or gods-bound. She thought the gods had acted to protect the roan, and she had just been along for the ride. It was the roan who was special, not she. I should be dead, she thought. If she was dead, then all would have been settled. The warlord's men would have been satisfied to see her body swept away, the roan would have been safe from Beck's whip, the ghost of tyhe man she had killed could have gone to his rest. There was a rounding off - a justice - in her death. But alive, no one was satisfied and no one was safe. ↗

— Pamela Freeman

#fate #horse #justice #protection #suicide

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#bring #closing #comfort #conversely #door

We've been called, and He has blessed. ↗

— Willie Aames

#blessed #called

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#else #everyone #excel #most #necessarily