Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.
When I’m on the court, it’s a blessing.
I didn’t think I’d be playing football at 31 so it’s a blessing just to be able to come out here and compete.
The most important thing is God’s blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn’t kill you certainly makes you stronger.
I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.
I’m used to always deciding everything myself. It’s a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.
Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that’s almost 40 years old.
I will never take my experience for granted, because it’s been a blessing.
Everything that I have earned in my life is just because of my guruji and his omnipotent blessing.
My mother wasn’t controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it’s the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I’ll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.
At the end of the seven years, ‘Family Ties’ voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
The fact that I’m finally getting recognition for what I do is always a blessing, you know?
This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I’m doing.
I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.
Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Reshoots are par for the course on any film. For me, I kind of love it because, as an actor, you always feel that there was a way you could have done it differently. Being able to go back and do some stuff again is always a blessing in my eyes.
Being of Indian heritage is a challenge – and it’s a blessing as well sometimes – because being good isn’t good enough. You have to be exceptional to play different characters.
Everything is a blessing to me.
To be able to be mentioned with guys like Emmitt, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin and my man LaDainian Tomlinson, it’s a blessing.
To do a ‘Bond’ picture is a blessing but also a curse.
Seeing somebody get what they earned is always a blessing.
I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn’t a distraction, though?
I’ve always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
I’m from a small town – Niagara, outside of Toronto. When I was a kid, I thought it was really boring, but it ended up being a big blessing because I got to know myself at a young age.
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
It’s a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you’ll die.
We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.
It’s a blessing that I have my family in my life and they were supportive, but there were times when I needed to find an outlet for me to understand my people and my own journey, and I found that through my chosen family, which was the ballroom community.
It’s a huge blessing to know you’ve done something that has affected people the way ‘The Matrix’ has. It’s like, there’s ‘Star Wars,’ and then there’s ‘The Matrix.’ It’s cool to be a part of that.
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
It’s a blessing to have people who love the art that you make and who are inspired by the art you create and are a part of.
You create this human being, and then you are that human being for the next six months. It’s amazing. I think that’s the blessing and the curse of being an actor. You get to be pretty much anything you want to be.
Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it’s a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there’s also such anonymity.
I was lucky enough to be launched into the marketplace with the blessing of a series like ‘Jewel.’
I do the ‘Rickey Smiley Morning Show’ every morning now, which is also another blessing, because then I also do the ‘Rickey Smiley for Real’ show on TV One, so I’m having all little types of platforms to showcase my music, and I’m very happy about that because music is my passion.
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I’ve loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It’s both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it’s not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.
When you see one of your kids really has a gift, you can’t fight it, because you start to understand what a blessing it’s been to you.
Focus on you – your soul, spirit, blessing people with who you are, and following your heart’s passions.
I think the only way a blessing is realized is if you pass it forward.
My first big break was ‘White Chicks.’ I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn’t feel like I was ready for such an opportunity. It could only be the hand of God blessing me. I accept everything I’m given with great appreciation.
To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.
And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.
God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.
Every burden is a blessing.
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please – God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.
We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.
I don’t like to talk hypotheticals. I deal with the real life situations. I treat every day as a blessing.
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
Me and Nerlens grew up together. We’re best friends. We played on the same AAU team in high school. It’s like a dream come true. We always talked about how we were both going to make it to the NBA. For us to end up on the same team is a blessing.
It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
