“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.”
Mary Baker Eddy book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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Have One On Me (2010)
“To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.”
Mary Baker Eddy book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Context: A number of years ago, I met a wise man who changed my life. In countless ways, large and small, I was always seeking the Lord's blessing. I was saying, you know, I have a new song, look after it... I have a family, please look after them... I have this crazy idea...
And this wise man said: stop.
He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing — because it's already blessed.
“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”
Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.”
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
While I listen to thy Voice; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
What the Bee Knows : Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story (1989)
Context: The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life — however much we deny or ignore it — that for ever remains.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 1, hadith number 97
Sunni Hadith
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Nobody said when.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 15 (p. 89)