Blessedness Quotes - Page 2

• Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

  Francis Quarles

  Peace, Peacemaker, Conqueror

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.17

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• For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

  Euripides

  Blessed, Pride, May

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• When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Hate, Blessing

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.75, Ravenio Books

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• Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Giving, Would Be

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• Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Long, Promise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.77, 谷月社

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• It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

  Saint Augustine

  Intellectual, Wish, Misery

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• I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

  Joanna Lumley

  Blessed, Giving, Charity

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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• 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 time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.

  James Gibbons

  Christmas, Christian, Spiritual

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• 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 was blessedness and love!

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Office, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.11

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• 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 will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Work, Blessed

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• 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 our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Father, Flower, Garden

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• My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another
  human being; blessedness comes from God.

  Duke Ellington

  Mother, Blessed, Taken

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Mind

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• Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; 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

  Father, Blessed, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

  George Eliot

  Love, Peace, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate

  Pope Leo XIII

  Soul, One Day, Principles

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.347, TAN Books

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• The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Character, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

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• If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lying, Knowing, Earth

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• If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it was from nature. If your friendship, even your meditation, leads you to misery, it was from the ego. If it were from nature everything would fit in, everything would become harmonious. Nature is wonderful, nature is beautiful, but you have to work it out.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Meditation, Ego

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• Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

  Sarada Devi

  Ordinary, Misery, God Love

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• Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

  John Buchan

  Mother, Wife, Mankind

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.2222, e-artnow

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• The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Work, Purpose

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816). “Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The pains of sleep”, p.30

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• There is a blessedness surely to be believed,
  and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Forever, Ecstasy, Eternal

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.30, City Lights Books

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