Blessedness Quote by Baruch Spinoza Download Open image “Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.” — Baruch Spinoza ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blessedness Character Virtue
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Being blessed is not only something to thank God for, but it is a gift from God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more… — Baruch Spinoza 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 humility is… — 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 so! An'… — 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 lead them… — 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 spring; it… — 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 it, but… — 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 the oak… — 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 life from… — 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 eternal blessedness,… — 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 moment when… — 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 of all… — 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 about the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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