Horace Mann Quotes

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Every couple years, you know, these great things drop in my lap. It's been fantastic.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

There are ills that happen for good.

Sometimes things are a blessing in disguise.

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.