Best blessing & calamity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”

Philosophy Taken Blessing Calamity Provinces

Book:The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_

Source: The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_

“It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfortunately, some of the vices come as it were by inspiration.”

Inspiration Teach Struggle Virtue Blessing Adversity Prison Vices Obstacles Curse Our Future Thrones Calamity Cradle

Author:James Sharp

“... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there.”

Long I Can Today Past Challenges Cry Blessing Yesterday Calamity

Book:The Gay Illiterate

Source: The Gay Illiterate

“Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.”

Knows Might Choices Issues Blessing Calamity Our Choices

Book:Buddhism Plain and Simple

Source: Buddhism Plain and Simple

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”

Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles

“Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah”

Blessing Calamity

Book:A Voice in the Wind

Source: A Voice in the Wind

“We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.”

Knows War Values Peace Blessing Folly Distress Calamity

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah”

Turns Forget Blessing Remembrance Calamity

Author:Ibn Taymiyyah

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