Quotes About Blessedness

It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed.

Whoever possesses God is happy.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

The bliss of blessedness!

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

Blessed are those who mourn…" This is the first step on the path of blessedness: sadness, discomfort, inner discontent, regret, misery, depression… mourning. If you are happy and carefree, why and how would you ever be motivated to do deep inner work – to heal, to evolve?

So the very first step on the path to blessedness is to be confronted by the spectre of meaninglessness… by inner discontent, sadness, anxiety, regret, frustration, depression. Confucius put it succinctly: "No vexation, no enlightenment; no anxiety, no illumination." (Analects 7:8)

Even the fact that to be for God, leads to the maximum blessedness, is secondary to the fact that we are for Him.

Betus hom qu invenit sapientiam. (Proverbs 3.13: betus hom, sc. est.)

POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

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

Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)

and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

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