It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know; Its burdens growin' lighter- An' it's Love that makes 'em… — Frank Lebby Stanton 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
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing… — Charles Spurgeon 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
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same… — George MacDonald 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
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
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
If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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
If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it… — Rajneesh 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
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