Open your eyes, I’m a BLESSING in disguise – Young Jeezy
Many of our problems are blessings in disguise. – O. Leslie Stone
Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises. – Janette Oke
God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others. – Mark Batterson
The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. – Evelyn Beatrice Hall
When you’re kept out of the adult world, it’s a blessing in disguise. – Henry Rollins
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith. – Thomas Watson
What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise – Doreen Virtue
Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned. – Ali ibn Abi Talib
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. – Mason Cooley
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. – Hannah More
Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder. – John McLeod
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. – C. S. Lewis
The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t. – William Arthur Ward
Keep talking about me behind my back, and watch God keep blessing me in front of your face. – Unknown
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. – Joel Osteen
we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them. – Jane Porter
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held. – Ann Voskamp
I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise. – Tony Shalhoub
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!” – William Shakespeare
Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person. – Brian Tracy
Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it. – Aron Ralston
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things. – Maya Angelou
Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing. – Florence Welch
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. – Thomas Watson
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. – Linda Fiorentino
A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don’t know that it’s there. – Lil Wayne
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings. – Chris Gardner
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. – Henry Fielding
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise. – Rebecca West
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. – Abraham Maslow
The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation. – Don Henley
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude. – Leonard Cohen
I’ve always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise. – Jermain Defoe
Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. – Brother Lawrence
Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others. – Janette Oke
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won’t be on the beneficial end of it but either way it’s a blessing in disguise. – Behdad Sami
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing. – Agnes Repplier
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. – Mohamed Al-Fayed
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition. – Dorothee Solle
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die. – Vavasor Powell
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise. – Rebecca Wells
Sometimes small setbacks are just blessings in disguise. They enhance your determination and whole-hearted dedication to achieving your goals. – Robert Cheeke
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you. – Joel Osteen
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for! – Oscar Wilde
As we express our appreciation of our many blessings, we become more conscious of what the Lord has done for us, and thereby we become more appreciative – Nathan Eldon Tanner
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. – John Calvin
There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you’re down. – Wes Fesler
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. – Alex Campbell
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats. – Napoleon Hill
Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation] – Izaak Walton
If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price. – Charles R. Swindoll
We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people–you will be that inevitably–but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God’s Son. – Alan Redpath
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them]. – Oscar Wilde
Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig`s blood. – Chris Hayes
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains – the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who’s in her presence is blessed to be there. – Anne Graham Lotz
If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think. – Joel Osteen
Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature. – Mikao Usui
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now. – Henry B. Eyring
I’d already rehearsed it [ Don’t Kill It script ] for the first time it was supposed to happen and the second time. That was a blessing in disguise because the character [Jebediah Woodley] grew a little bit in me. – Dolph Lundgren
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. – Garrett Hardin
We don’t have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be. – Gigi Graham
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the “second mile” and told us to go there. Why? Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile. – Hartman Rector, Jr.
There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others. – Joel Osteen
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise. – Zbigniew Brzezinski
As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him. – John Adams
The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body of Christ, to encourage others in the proper use of their finances, and to make the extension of the Gospel possible. – Charles Stanley
While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it is also true that as we search, pray, and believe, we will often recognize things working together for our good in this life. – Susan W. Tanner
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last. – Matthew Henry
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. – Todd Tiahrt
People often say that a bad event is a ‘blessing in disguise.’ Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks. – Tom Freston
Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go. – Amy Purdy
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. – Humphry Davy
Baptism is the critical priesthood ordinance which opens the door to eternal life for each one of us. It is the benchmark from which we count our many blessings because this is when our accountability to follow Jesus Christ and live his Gospel begins. – Elaine L. Jack
How can I look at it and say, there it is – it’s real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What’s my best course of action? How can I be skillful? – Brad Willis
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us. – James Robertson
All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it’s gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative. – Madonna Ciccone
Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master. – Brent L. Top
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. – Oscar Wilde
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. – Andrew Jackson
I chose No. 1 Ladies’ Detective, or I’ll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience. – Jill Scott
The challenge of course is in sobriety and that’s been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society. – Bonnie Raitt
I teach and believe that God wants his people to be blessed. If we give and we are a blessing to other people, that God promises in his word that he will take care of us. Actually, says he’ll open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so great that we can’t contain it. – Joyce Meyer
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings. – Rob Brezsny
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God’s truth to be his heritage. – Charles Spurgeon
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. – Nikola Tesla
Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God. – George W. Bush
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil. – Socrates
I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I’m this high and mighty, bourgeoise girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I’m a super fun girl that is obsessed with my family and friends and just love to have fun and be a blessing to people! That’s it! I’m very simple! – Kierra Kiki Sheard
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you. – Margaret D. Nadauld
I guess my parents wasn’t f***ing with me being with X. It was more less, they thought that my life was in danger. They felt it was hurting more, then it was helping. So they ended up pulling me out of the deal. It was actually a blessing in disguise because everything worked out for the best at the end of the day. – Yung Berg
We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience. – Charles Spurgeon
Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I’ve known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever do that was worth love from you and the kindness you’ve shown? Lord, help me, Jesus, I’ve wasted it so. Help me, Jesus. I know what I am. Now that I know that I’ve needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul’s in your hand. – Johnny Cash
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I’m a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets – it’s a very sad lesson – by their intervention, saved the myth. – Slavoj Žižek
I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It’s the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing. – David Spangler
The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that is as the sun shining in its strength beams with as much love as when it drew publicans and harlots to His feet. The breast that is girt with the golden girdle is the same breast upon which John leaned his happy head. – Alexander MacLaren
I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people’s problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there’s sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves. – Tony Shalhoub
I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy. To me, you need to have money to pay your bills. I think God wants us to send our kids to college. I think he wants us to be a blessing to other people. But I don’t think I’d say God wants us to be rich. It’s all relative, isn’t it? – Joel Osteen
Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz ‘N the Hood. I really wasn’t even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn’t really taking him seriously. – Ice Cube
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God’s goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer. – Ezra Taft Benson
As for “toothy kindness” – I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that’s a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line. – George Saunders
I take 10 minutes. I focus on what I’m most grateful for. Then I do a little prayer for three minutes, a blessing within myself through God, and then out to my family and friends and all those I serve. Then my last three minutes are the three things I want to achieve most. At the end of 10 minutes, you are wired. Everything in your life gets filtered through that. – Tony Robbins
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease. – Robert Fulghum
Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is called luck by those who are unaware of the workings of higher Worlds. Providence also creates very difficult circumstances to reveal or dissolve a fixed situation … This is called bad luck or later, A Blessing in Disguise. – Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi
The purpose of God’s blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing. – Brian Houston
Someone has said it is better to appreciate the things you don’t own than to own things you don’t appreciate. I hope we will have with us a spirit of appreciation for all of the good things we enjoy, all the blessings that we have, many of which have come so easy to us, with very little effort on our part, and yet they are very real and very choice and are truly rich blessings. – Ezra Taft Benson
As we faithfully pay our tithes, the Lord will indeed open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. I want each of you to know, and especially my children and grandchildren, that I know, as my grandfather did, that if you always pay an honest tithing, the Lord will bless you. It will be the best investment you will ever make. – Sheldon F. Child
People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt. – Ayn Rand
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear. – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I find I’m most challenged by things I really care about, because I really want to do them well. It causes quite a bit of anxiety. But that very thing you’re afraid of is kind of like a blessing in disguise. If you didn’t have that fear, you wouldn’t have the other side – courage and bravery, positive emotions.As an actor, you get used to those fears, and you’re almost happy when they show up. It makes you learn your lines and prepare. – Jeff Bridges
It may be a blessing in disguise…Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it’s a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other. – Pat Robertson
My dog doesn’t worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn’t get her breakfast, but she doesn’t sit around worrying whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine. But we human beings are not like dogs. 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. – Joko Beck
When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others. – John Templeton
The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability. – Marion G. Romney
If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn’t see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn’t life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better. – John Templeton
Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown of organized society. And there is nothing compassionate about what’s happening to the people of Arizona. There is nothing compassionate about the violation of private property rights. There is nothing compassionate about the abuse of the taxpayer. There is nothing compassionate about the closing of schools and hospitals. Nothing at all compassionate about increased drug trafficking and crime. Nothing compassionate about that at all. – Rush Limbaugh
