Quotes & Sayings About Hidden Blessings

Of all the blessings bestowed on man, the greatest lies in the fact that God's face is forever hidden from him — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. — Curt Weldon

On top of lumpy tufts of valley grass. A semitruck roared by without pause; the Camaro rocked in its wake. On the other end of the phone, his roommate Ronan Lynch replied, — Maggie Stiefvater

the same way that you can easily switch the letters of a word around to see another hidden meaning, such is life. A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It's all a matter of how you look at it. So, while this book was once setting up to be a tragic tale, it turned into a love story, an imperfect but unconventionally epic romance. — Penelope Ward

Let us realize that we can only fulfill our calling to bear much fruit by praying much. In Christ are hidden all the treasures that the people around us need. In Him, all God's children are blessed with all spiritual blessings. He is full of grace and truth. But, prayer, much prayer, strong believing prayer, is needed to bring about these blessings. And let us equally remember that we cannot appropriate the promise without first living a life given up for men. Many try to take the promise and then look around for what they can ask. This is not the way, but the very opposite. Get the heart burdened with the need of souls, and the command and power to save them will come to claim the promise. — Andrew Murray

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

War is the certain proof that humans find death more attractive than life. — Stefan Boldisor

Still, little by little, the two of us learned to devote our bodies and minds to this newly created being we called our home. We practiced thinking and feeling about things together. Things that happened to either of us individually we now strove to deal with together as something that belonged to both of us. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. But we enjoyed the fresh, new process of trial and error. And even violent collisions we could forget about in each other's arms. — Haruki Murakami

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in. — Zachary Schomburg

The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it. — Sarah J. Maas

This will be our reply to violence:
to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before. — Leonard Bernstein

Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations. — M.J. Ryan

Most men are not scolded out of their opinion. — Martin Van Buren

Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. — Anita Brookner

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body. — Calvin Klein

let's do it for Johnny — S.E. Hinton

You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do. — Nir Eyal

Pruning is strategic. It is directional and forward-looking. It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. If you have that, you know what a rose is, and pruning will help you get one of true beauty. — Henry Cloud

A shrinking net worth can be one of God's greatest hidden blessings. True freedom is found in the realization that "everything minus Jesus equals nothing" and "Jesus plus nothing equals everything." But sometimes, especially for those of us who have been given much, it takes having less material wealth to realize that the true wealth is found in Jesus. — Scott Sauls

Maybe when you're young, you love people as much for their potential as for who they are right now. And if that's the case, what happens to love when time passes and that potential starts to shrivel and fade? Does love die with it? — Janelle Brown

To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me. — William Makepeace Thackeray

By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction. — David Steindl-Rast

In the same way that you can easily switch the letters of a word around to see another hidden meaning, such is life. A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. — Penelope Ward

In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have. — Laura Schroff

False modesty is evidence of secret pride, Mr. Winterborne — Lisa Kleypas