Benediction Quotes

• The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Past, Years

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Creativity, Giving

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Character, Dark, Blessing

  "Voices of the dead". Book by John Cumming, p.8: The Speaking Dead, 1854.

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• But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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• The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Success

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• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  God, Successful, Hypocrisy

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• Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Life, Should, Universal

  "Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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• Be a gift and a benediction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.320, Library of America

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• Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Blessing, Kind, Courtesy

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• Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.

  J.R. Miller

  Positive, Hands, Trials

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Men, Evil, Design

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• Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Calm Mind, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 589), 1895.

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

  Favour, Source, Enjoy

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 12), 1990.

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• With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stillness

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• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

  Michael Foley

  Morning, Coffee, Wine

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• In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving, Action, Vain

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• The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fall, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.641

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• Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

  John Quincy Adams

  Prayer, Heart, America

  Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy Adams, Richard Loss (1800). “The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction”, Academic Resources Corp

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

  I. L. Peretz

  Sake, Drink

  "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by M. Samuel, 1948.

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• [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Class System, President

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• The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, People, Wake Up

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• The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Ignorance, Men

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