How To Use Blessing In A Sentence

Success is neither a gift nor a blessing. Success is what you deserve. You work for and earn your success. Dr T.P.Chia
thousand of time i have thought of you .my heart is going high into the air and flying with my blessing towards you i don't care loneliness. i am satisfied when you are happy and i am happy when i think of you!
People do not know the blessing of health till they lose it.
They believe that the pir's gravesite is full of blessings, and they attend at shrines to pray to God for favors.
I am not saying you are doing anything wrong here legally, you have the blessings of Mayor Tremblay after all, but there is a history of large scale projects going "overbudget" in this city. Walking Turcot Yards

Imposition of hands was a ceremony used especially in paternal blessings; Jacob used it when he blessed and adopted the sons of Joseph, Gen. xlviii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
'The Angel of the Lord said unto Abraham, Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not _withheld_ thy son, _thine only son_, from Me, therefore blessing I will bless thee,' etc. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Health and understanding are the two great blessing of life.
It is a way of mutual support - lay people supply food, medicine, and cloth for robes, and monks give spiritual support, blessings, and teachings.
Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering. Steve Maraboli
During a recent conversation with somebody who is sticking to the term blessing, they said that the term inspiration sounds as though it only applies to the description of the process whereby one focuses on a person who has set a constructive encouraging example. Inspiration (��Blessings��) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission
How shall we ever admire our civic leaders if we cannot look up to them, to see a white silk glove raised in blessing, a ringed-hand greeting?
Gamaliel defined no more than the beginnings and ends of blessings, leaving the prayer leader or individual worshipper to improvise on the set theme.
The Goodman asked a blessing and then heaped the trenchers high with what he called the bounty of the Lord. The Puritan Twins
He does credit himself with a good sniffer though and claims that his thick moustache is both a blessing – pleasant smells linger longer – and a curse – the bad ones do too. Something Stinks « So Many Books
Time flies by and I remember I haven't seen you for ages.I send you a fine card with my missing and sincere blessing.
Indeed, as a rule, the blessing of the impious is a curse, wherefore Rebekah remained barren for years. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
Visitors to the show will receive a lace bag of wedding favours, five sugared almonds which traditionally convey blessing, with a Bible text inside.
This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
The concept of durbar reveals the jagadguru's benevolence for the welfare and well being of the devotees who participate to gain the acharya's blessings.
Yes, I think it would have been great had Gilad given thanks to God with the traditional Gomel blessing in a synagogue close to his home in Mitzpe Hila, but he is a free man in a democratic nation and can be thankful anyway he chooses. Rabbi Jason Miller: Gilad Shalit, Iran Hiker Josh Fattal And Freedom Of Religion
If a tarot card gets ‘marked’ in some way, that can generally be considered a blessing on that card.
The cow showers blessings on you as any business dealings with milk and milk-products bring profits.
Just be thankful for small blessings. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
A blessing in disguise.
She felt this blessing now and kissed his temple, and then a corner of one salty eye.
The main preparation is the festive meal that follows the Bris, which is accompanied by special blessings during the Grace After Meals.
You make my heart smile. In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you. For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warm greetings to my friends whom I miss so much. Wish you a happy new year and a good fortune in the coming year when we will share our happiness, think of our good friends, and our dreams come true!
You take them as a matter of course if you are outward bound, but on your call homeward (if you make it) you will look on them as a blessing and a curiosity. Travels in West Africa
Thank you, Lord, for your blessings.
He also must be crowned by you and receive your blessings, for you are the suzerain. THE FAMILY
Taking Medalon was not going to be easy, despite the Kariens ' numerical superiority and the much-talked-about blessing of the Overlord. TREASON KEEP
Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.' Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care. Latest Articles
Don't let time dilute the wine of friendship.Don't let distance space out missing.Blessing you,forever!
For ordinary Italians, Sunday's news probably amounts to a mixed blessing.
I cannot give my blessing to such a proposal.
While clergy and lay members of the national church voted to hand the question of blessing same sex relationships to a theological committee, the Diocese of Toronto is set to debate the matter at its diocesan synod this fall.
Discovering blessing starts with accepting imperfection, both our own and other's.
People are blessing themselves as they pass where the accident happened.
The plan has received the blessing of Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt.
May blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
Ye can stop as ye are, little lay mothers, and wait in wish and wish in vain till the grame reaper draws nigh, with the sickle of the sickles, as a blessing in disguise. Finnegans Wake
The public consultation period on the Westmead skatepark ended last Thursday, just as Chippenham Town Council gave its blessing for the plans to proceed.
Or faith-based organizations landing more and more hard-earned taxpayer dollars, including Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, which grifted FEMA in the wake of Katrina's devastation. Scott Thill: Waking Up is Hard to Do
The church now echoed with whimpering cries as the priest said his final prayers and blessings.
We gave thanks to God for all our blessings.
Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing.
Second, they solicit special blessings from the devas and Deities, society and village, family and friends.
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
The fact that you don't need an electrical appliance to extract juice from a watermelon also comes as a blessing for these vendors.
May its blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
Rivers are a blessing for an agricultural country.
Western diplomats said there was little hope of brokering a end to the conflict without his blessing. Times, Sunday Times
Just be thankful for small blessings. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Greek, "The blessing, the glory, the wisdom, the thanksgiving, the honor, the power, the might [the doxology is sevenfold, implying its totality and completeness], unto the ages of the ages. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
People do not know the blessing of health till they lose it.
You will eat the fruit of your labour; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
I think they each wanted some nod of blessing and assurance; wanted absolution from Mary so they could go back to having a good time.
Peace and blessings 2 all of good moral conduct, i pray and hope that this bill will stop insurance companies from being immune from prosecution when they behave criminally by changing a patients identity in order 2 evade responsibilities in honoring the ethic codes of providing health coverage without prejudice because of preconditioned injuries, .. Reid's vote surprises everyone – including himself
May its blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
Wishing you and yours a wonderful new year filled with blessings.
It's like God and Buddha just heaped bountiful blessings on every snarky blogger in the world.
Wishing you all the blessings of a beautiful Christmas season.
` ` The bairn was a blessing --- that is, Jeanie, it wad hae been a blessing if it hadna been for my mother; but my mother's a queer woman. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
A new life, a life in which she would find the blessings that Nana had said a harami like her would never see. A Thousand Splendid Suns
The other essential part of the marriage service is the invocation of divine blessing.
The Catholic Church, for one, is not about to give the operation its blessing.
With patience and the blessings of modern technology, Rima may one day learn more about her father (terrific!) or about Addison (still better!).
However, an ivory plaque of Christ blessing Otto II and Theophano shows how the match could dignify Saxon imperial pretensions.
Whilst they are still good companies in their own right, they are nevertheless no longer diversified industrials, which might be a welcome blessing!
He was startled to behold their beauty, and at once felt a rush of love for these creatures, blessing them as the only other living things in his damnable world.
God bless you and yours, and surround you ever with his blessing.
I've never gone and given a full blessing to an entire newspaper op-ed page before.
What looks to you like an impenetrable barrier today will become, if you lean into it, a bridge to a whole new season of blessing. Christianity Today
The guaranteed, antitypical blessings for the elect rest exclusively upon the meritorious work of Christ.
Peace grows when the graces of God and the blessings of Earth are not considered possessions to be protected but divine gifts intended for all.
I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
Well, it's the earliest images - of independence and freedom, particularly - that do live obstinately on, despite the blessing and the bludgeoning of life's fullness.
Both the Bible and history demonstrate that such a measure of blessing is almost invariably related to the means employed.
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
May your family be full of divine blessings on this Thanksgiving!
Rebecca turns to deception in order to correct her husband's blindness -- more metaphorical than literal -- and give the blessing to its more deserving recipient, Jacob, whom she now ropes into the dupery. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
Wishing you all the blessings of a beautiful Christmas season.
During the Trisagion the Reader should come and receive the blessing of the celebrant to read the Apostle.
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
The great cattle freeze of the white winter had been, in retrospect, a blessing in disguise.
Indeed, He is the source of EVERY spiritual blessing that God has to offer.
Don't let time dilute the wine of friendship.Don't let distance space out missing.Blessing you,forever!
Four months before her death she gave him her blessing to go ahead with the procedure.
With a quickly prayed prayer of blessing for the food, the two of them began tucking in.
At many Siva temples and Cobra shrines, women are often seen in prayer or receiving the blessings of the attending priest.
Girl Guides are agitating and demonstrating with their parents' blessing, although it's debatable what use their stick-whittling skills will be once they're kittled into a four-hour stand-off by police. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Things could be worse: count your blessings that you are not a victim of pantophobia -- the morbid dread of everything. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
Laodicea is given the crowning promise, not only the two former blessings, but a seat with Christ on His throne, even as He has sat with His Father on His Father's throne (Re 3: 21). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Liberality, righteous conduct, rendering assistance to relatives, and performance of blameless deeds - this is the highest blessing.
In these dark and dismal days, I find it preferable to count my blessings. Times, Sunday Times
supplicate God's blessing
The BMC calendar is legal -- even without Ford's blessing -- and when you protect yourself from legal liability by shutting it down, you incur PR liability by seeming like a bunch of candy-asses who can be bullied into submission by a memo from some white-shoe legal goon from a Fortune 100. Boing Boing
There's little subcutaneous fat there anymore, and that's a blessing, especially when it comes to tying bootlaces.
Its will a blessing to a Psalm 112 woman.
I think it stems from the tradition of visiting your local shrine one month after the baby is born to do the blessing thing.
You make my heart smile. In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you. For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warm greetings to my friends whom I miss so much. Wish you a happy new year and a good fortune in the coming year when we will share our happiness, think of our good friends, and our dreams come true!
Joy and fun, wish fulfillment and blessing, come to your home this Thanksgiving!
Blessings upon a fashion which has rescued from the claws of abigails, and the melting-pot of the silversmith, those neglected cimelia, for the benefit of antiquaries and the decoration of side-tables! Saint Ronan's Well
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Brian Tracy
NIV He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God his Savior.
Positive emotions are a blessing to reason. Negative emotions are a threat to reason. Dr T.P.Chia
Protagoras 'contemporary, Sophocles, wrote the most enthusiastic proclamation of man's ability to con - trol and transform the world that survives from antiq - uity (Antigone 332-75), yet he closed his encomium with a cautionary reference to the fact that such power can be a mixed blessing. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Her "maid" is poor Kirkcaldy Helen, one of the notabilities, and also blessings here; who staid with us (thanks chiefly, almost wholly, to the admirable/management/) for nearly twelve years on a stretch. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
A Blessing in Disguise?
The moment I said that, a million and one things that could have happened rushed into my mind, blessing my brain with an instant overload.
Being single after my last relationship has been a blessing.
Although the distance between will space out us,may we remember our true friendship and blessing.
The old king was now left with no other companion than the poor fool, who still abided with him, with his merry conceits striving to outjest misfortune, saying it was but a naughty night to swim in, and truly the king had better go in and ask his daughter's blessing: -- Tales from Shakespeare
Switching to College Prep was a mixed blessing.
Winning the toss isn't such a blessing here - in nine games, the team losing the toss has won on seven occasions, including the last five ODIs.
He was pleased to have the Commissioner's blessing, the official imprimatur. MAMBO
when Bulukiya landed and walked about the island he found therein many marvels, especially a bird whose body was of pearls and leek green emeralds and its plumery of precious metals; and it was engaged in singing the praises of Allah the Most High and blessing Mohammed (upon whom be benediction and peace!). The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than by the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification. Religio Medici
If it is the case that Wanderers can, as their manager maintains, put such a humiliating defeat behind them then the White Hart Lane walloping could indeed prove a blessing in disguise.
Standing on the podium in ninth place, Gilmour counted her blessings that she could race in the 15 km Easter Weekend hill climb at all.
In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you.
They were easier to use, they had sticky tape instead of safety pins and - blessing of blessings - you could just throw them away when they became soiled.
In the afternoon, however, they were joined by some players who were performing in the town; and from one of those he learned that the two strangers were from Ireland -- He who gave him the crownpiece being a gentleman of the name of Comerford, a merchant -- he who gave him his blessing, a Mr. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
Standing under the marriage canopy, the chuppah, surrounded by the faces of my family and the community, I felt the strength of their prayers and blessings.
These spiritual blessings form a substantial part of Christ's riches.
The song is a prayer for God's blessing on the land and all its people.
Chinese philosophers believe in the mutual convertibility of blessings and misfortunes and nowhere is this dramatized so vividly as in Chinese officialdom.
Its red-orange buildings float on their reflections in the tidal water, as the festooned fishing boats arrive thorough the giant torii gateway framing the entrance of the bay for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet.
I've stopped crying all the time about it and walking round in a depressed daze, which is a blessing. \"I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by...it's alright cuz I'm Saved by the Bell\"
Do you see Twilight as a blessing, or are you afraid of typecasting with such a huge franchise? Any reservations with being part of such a cultural phenomenon?
And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’
Health and understanding are the two great blessing of life.
People in Shang Dynasty frequently prayed for rain and blessing , and sacrifice the mountain devoutly.
A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
I only wish for a small wedding, no gifts or lavish food or gowns, just my family and their blessings.
More than three times as much was gathered as the campaign cost, and pastors and church members everywhere testified that the meetings were resultful in spiritual uplift and blessing, as well as in stimulating interest and greatly increased gifts. The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896
What a blessing you weren't hurt in the accident!
Even that has been a mixed blessing.
He said that "he felt uncommonly well, had much less of the dyspepsy than he had experienced for years," followed his little girls to their favorite haunts, and seemed to realize the blessing of leisure. Rich Enough a tale of the times
All churches have structures of ministry that they identify, in various ways, as arising from baptism and conferred through ordination and other forms of blessing and appointment.
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would tech him the joys of sound.
NEW BEGINNINGS The first semester of the 1993/94 season saw one of the Swedes return home, the other injure his knee and the third male swimmer fall ill, which meant that I ended up being Jan's only breaststroker - a blessing in disguise as it allowed us the time to build that all-important swimmer-coach relationship. An Autobiography
-- 'Be careful to let no fretting injure your health as I have suffered it -- health is the greatest of blessings -- with _health_ and Keats: Poems Published in 1820
The media were also out in force, although not with the blessing of the Thompson family or their friends and associates.
His illness became a blessing in disguise, when he married his nurse.
Mercifully, the moon has changed, which always gives me the strength to crawl out of my funk and count my blessings.
The dependence on the Internet for instruction has been a mixed blessing for educators.
There is evidence that, chiefly through the Divine blessing upon Renwick's faithful preaching, and his singular wisdom in council, those Societies increased, instead of diminishing, in the latter part of the prelatic persecution. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
Shittim" means "acacias," which grow only in arid regions: implying that even the arid desert shall be fertilized by the blessing from Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Mr. Beauchamp, Sir Harry himself, and my lady, are continually blessing my guardian: Every body, in short, blesses him. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey
A very light touch on the red button switches it all off," she says, which is a blessing for her, because jumping in and out of the armchair with her gammy ankle to switch over every time the Face came on was wearing her out. I can't look at our new Leader's face
That book has 1,293 pages, including such useful things as the propers for the Blessing of an Abbot.
If we do not thank God for God's blessing, then we become like ingrates, those who presume upon the goodness of those who give them gift after gift.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine
From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history. Archive 2009-09-01
But the orienting theme throughout the Mosaic canon is life and its blessings, the affirmation of personhood.
Rich blessings for health and longevity is my special wish for you in the coming year.
Instead of, or in addition to, a traditional baby shower where the focus is on stuff (yes, I had one too), consider having a Blessingway (also called a Mother Blessing) for the mother-to-be. Brandy Ferner: Setting Up Realistic Expectations of Birth -- Changes We Can All Make
The blessing of the Parish Centre providentially falls on the 12th of December, the day when in Mexico and in the Americas celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
May the New Year bring many good things and rich blessings to you and all those you love!
The government has given its blessing to a plan to improve the rights of children.
Who is the firstfruit of a harvest of blessings to come?
I DO agree with Roger Perry that we live in a beautiful world and that we have many blessings to be grateful for.
{ Some loremasters say that this figure signifies great blessings no matter into which house it falls - save the I louse of Salt. A TIME OF WAR
Come thou, and entreat his blessing!
I would like to think there are 2 of them (love multiplied with blessings is a big WOW!). Visit Number: 100,000
But, to make them blessings, you must act your part well; for they may, by your neglect, your ill-treatment, your evil example, be made to be the _contrary of blessings_; instead of pleasure, they may bring you pain; instead of making your heart glad, the sight of them may make it sorrowful; instead of being the staff of your old age, they may bring your gray hairs in grief to the grave. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
If we serve selflessly, we receive spiritual and worldly blessings.
Luck is neither a gift nor a blessing. Luck is what you deserve. Dr T.P.Chia
It was a blessing that no one was killed in the accident.
This was followed by a blessing and a private committal.
You make my heart smile. In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you. For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warm greetings to my friends whom I miss so much. Wish you a happy new year and a good fortune in the coming year when we will share our happiness, think of our good friends, and our dreams come true!
As a result he received the blessing of the Byzantine patriarch and the title of tsar of Bulgaria.
They have to do with the importance of limited government; and with the blessing of self-government. Full text: GOP's prepared response to Obama's State of the Union speech
In a funny way, I felt as though Mum had just given her blessing to the whole relationship. READY?
But the passenger pigeon, as we now know this bird, was a mixed blessing for the Pilgrims.
While we see gnosis and fulfilment of will, they see the blessings of God.
But this was extended, through myth and legend, to be seen as a generalized blessing.
You can sign up for a heck of a lot of legal status with your partner, or you can go and get yourself a religious blessing of your relationship, and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Therefore, one should not say a blessing over any forbidden or stolen food, since this is not a blessing but a blasphemy.
Using parallelograms to define affine transformations may be a mixed blessing.
With such proofs of the uncertain continuance here of the great ornaments & blessings of society, let not little circumstances induce us to neglect the tender of their friendship. Letter 188
They thronged to his office so as to kiss his hand and receive blessings before returning to their chanting.
But for every new-found friend ready to stand a drink at the bar, there is a wisecracking motormouth, resentful of a footballer's many blessings, fervently determined to downsize the over-inflated ego attributed to all players.
At Rick's request I would like your blessing of this gift transaction for UK tax purposes.
Hah! then I see the 'podex of your gnat Is trumpet-fashion'd — Oh! the blessings on him For this discovery; well may he escape The law's strict scrutiny, who thus dev elopes* Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others]
The municipal government has given its blessing to the plan of a new bridge.
Still, the EC - 121 incident was a blessing in disguise.
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
TIRUMALA: The newly introduced 'photometric' system using facial identification technology is a blessing for the ordinary devotees waiting in Sarvadarshan queue lines. The Hindu - Front Page
I laughed and finally managed to pull my gaze away, silently blessing him for breaking the tension.
Everybody counts - the happy ones count their blessings and the sad ones count their troubles. RVM
We cook festival foods at harvest time and feed it to the waters and oceans for blessing and fruitfulness, then take more of that same produce and place it on the altars of our churches.
Though outlawed and rarely performed, the act is deemed to deify the perpetrator, blessing her family for seven generations after her death.

How To Use Blessing In A Sentence

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