Favorite Quotations
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Blessings
Learning to Fall
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. ~ Willie Nelson Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W. T. Purkiser Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~ Charles Dickens Count your joys instead of your woes/Count your friends instead of your foes. ~ Irish Proverb Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them. ~ Plautus You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. ~ Andrew Jackson All blessings are mixed blessings. ~ John Updike If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised. ~ Winston Churchill Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. ~ Charles Caleb Colton My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them? ~ Gail Devers, USA Today
"When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place." ~ C.S. Lewis