Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Harboring hatred in the heart will not lead to success; but following the truth and love and grace, will lead to blessedness. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A believer longs after God, to come into his presence, to feel his love, to feel near to him in secret, to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
For here we are so blind and foolish that we never seek God until he, of his goodness, shows himself to us.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful,… — Sarah Smiley Copy Share Image
“When God created the universe, it was with the objective of making those He created partakers of His perfection and blessedness, thus… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“who sought heaven under a mountain of stone, sat thinking till he realized the land of blessedness exists in the imagination -” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th'… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Secondly, It evidences his blessedness also, as it intimates that this knowledge is above any that flesh and blood can reveal. “This… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also… In the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
