It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force flying C-130's all around the globe that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away the more that comes back. That is the way life works and that is the way energy works.
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
I see humanity now as one vast plant needing for its highest fulfillment only love the natural blessings of the great outdoors and intelligent crossing and selection.
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life between my friendship with the guys in the band our wonderful audience being able to play this music and then my family.
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart not from more blessings.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
If you don't die of thirst there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness which we all yearn for or you can do the beauty of minutiae the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music or Neil Young.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should may and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.