If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness. — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts. — Philip James Bailey 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
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that… — Matthew Simpson 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
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
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
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The man [who] is greatest and most blessed and joyful [is one] whose life most closely approaches the pattern of Christ. This… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with… — Anonymous 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
“three stanzas says the same thing: May the Lord bless; may the Lord make His face shine; may the Lord lift up… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the… — Gustav Mahler 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
“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
Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow 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
Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building… — J.R. Miller 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
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
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history… — James Gibbons 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
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
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