The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: If our usual response to an annoying situation is a curse, we're likely to meet emergencies with a curse. In the little events of daily living we have the opportunity to condition our reflexes, which are built up out of ordinary things. And we learn to bless first of all by being blessed. My reflexes of blessing have been conditioned by my parents, my husband, my children, my friends
“The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part in posterity will bless or curse us.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War
Knox on the Declaration of Independence. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
—Charlie”
Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer
Source: This World We Live In
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
FOX News interview http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353759,00.html with Bill O'Reilly, April 30, 2008. <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“Knowing’s a blessing, relaying it is the curse.”
Marcus Orelias (1993) American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur
Book VII
Rebel of the Underground (2013)
Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
"The Old Man and the White Horse"
In the Eye of the Storm (1991)
Context: All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don’t know. Whether it be a curse or a blessing, I can’t say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next?
