Blessedness Quotes

• A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

  Jean Ingelow

  Life, Beauty, Blessing

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• A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

  Mason Cooley

  Positive, Heart, Blessing

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• God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

  Billy Graham

  Discipline, Doe, Conditions

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2016

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• 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 wherein they know it here, at any moment.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Moments, Form, Graves

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• 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 God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  Saint Augustine

  Accomplishment, Desire

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• Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfect, Vision

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 1485.

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• Christ is like a river in another respect. A river is continually flowing, there are fresh supplies of water coming from the fountain-head continually, so that a man may live by it, and be supplied with water all his life. So Christ is an ever-flowing fountain; he is continually supplying his people, and the fountain is not spent. They who live upon Christ, may have fresh supplies from him to all eternity; they may have an increase of blessedness that is new, and new still, and which never will come to an end.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1974). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”

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• 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 so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Dream, Eye, Sky

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Business

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

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• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Rewards, Virtue

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

  Mark Hopkins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

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• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Roots, Fruit, Innocence

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Humility, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing

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• True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

  Solon

  Good Life, Happy Death

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• There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Higher, Can Do

  Thomas Carlyle (1833). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Zenfelsdröck in Three Books”, p.132

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• Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Gratitude, Sorrow, Notes

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.

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• Blessedness is within us all.

  Patti Smith

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• One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

  Herodotus

  Looks, Ends, Should

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• 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

  Littles, Hopefully, Knows

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

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• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  Matthew Simpson

  Joy, Shining, Comfort

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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

  Life, Flower, Rose

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 67

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• Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

  Philip James Bailey

  Home, Heart

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.185

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• Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.

  R. A. Torrey

  Kings, Lying, Blessing

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.159, Christian Publishing House

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• Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Aids, Ceremony

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