Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
“Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra' That is, "Now your blessedness appears.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of… — Anonymous 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
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness… — John of Kronstadt 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
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that… — Mark Hopkins 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
There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a… — George Eliot 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
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
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
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
“it is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of… — Andrew Murray 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
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
Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist… — Swami Vivekananda 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
“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
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
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless… — Anne Rice 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
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness. — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
“I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.” — Olive Higgins Prouty Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“How much there is to suffer. When was time enough to pay attention to our lighter emotions? And still I recognize, better… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image