Blessed Quotes

"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too"

Elton John, Musician

"If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind"

Oswald Chambers, Theologian

"I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it"

Brian Welch, Musician

"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"Charlie and I were never blessed with children"

Marge Schott, Businessman

"But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I feel really blessed because of where I come from"

Katy Perry, Musician

"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions"

Steve Kerr, Athlete

"We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"I am really blessed and very grateful for it"

Pam Grier, Actress

"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty"

Roger Moore, Actor

"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another"

John Clayton

"The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences"

Sonia Sotomayor, Judge

"We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences"

Sonia Sotomayor, Judge

"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater"

David Hasselhoff, Actor

"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all"

Joe Lando, Actor

"Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter"

Ivor Novello, Musician

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