Blessedness Quotes

50 quotes by 46 authors

We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with… — St. Catherine of Siena
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God. — Thomas Aquinas
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… — Thomas Carlyle
If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and the sons of… — Maximus the Confessor
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all… — James Gibbons
When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded… — Gerrard Winstanley
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it… — William Wordsworth
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. — Mason Cooley
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high… — Mark Hopkins
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. — Jean Ingelow
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better… — John D. Rockefeller
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. — Baruch Spinoza
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is… — George MacDonald
And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -… — George Eliot
Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but… — J.R. Miller
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, â€” that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek… — Louisa May Alcott
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 life just because… — Anne Rice

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