#sings

...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

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#reflection #philosophical

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. ↗

— Walter Lang

#depths #does #environment #explore #food

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#blessings #counting #i #life #started

I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#give #given #god #had #i

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#both #called #creation #defend #gave

It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well. ↗

— Anwar Robinson

#around #because #beyonce #i #i think

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. ↗

— Socrates

#best #blessings #general #god #good

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ↗

— Socrates

#death #greatest #human #may