Blessings are the infusion or bestowal of something with holiness, spiritual redemption, divine will, or one's hope or approval.
Quotes
- May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share, for every sigh a sweet song and an answer for each prayer.
- Anonymous Irish blessing, as quoted in The Puppet Master (2009) by Jan Coffey.
- Quoted by Vin Scully in his final sign-off on October 2, 2016.
- Blessings star forth forever; but a curse
Is like a cloud — it passes.- Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Hades.
- Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing."
- Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998).
- The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
- Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998).
- I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.
- Julia Cameron, Blessings : Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (1998).
- A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I bless'd them unaware.- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798; 1817), Part IV.
- For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.- William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act V, scene 3.
- God bless us every one.
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave 3 (saying of Tiny Tim).
- Like a led Victim, to my Death I'll go,
And, dying, bless the Hand that gave the Blow.- John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act II, Scene I.
- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
- Genesis 32:26 (KJV).
- Das Leben ist der Güter höchstes, und das schlimmste Übel ist der Tod.
- Life is the greatest of blessings, and death the worst of evils.
- Heinrich Heine, Ideen (1835), Das Buch Le Grand, Ch. 3.
- When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by,
'Let us,' said he, 'pour on him all we can:
Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.'- George Herbert, The Pulley (published posthumously, 1633).
- Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.- Jesus Christ as quoted in the Gospel of Matthew 5:1–12 (NIV); ofen referred to as "The Beatitudes" this is the start of "The Sermon on the Mount".
- Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
- Jesus Christ as quoted in the Gospel of John 20:29 (AKJV).
- The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 75.
- Steal immortal blessing from her lips.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1595), Act III, scene 3, line 37.
- The benediction of these covering heavens
Fall on their heads like dew!- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act V, scene 5, line 350.
- In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis feticitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia, quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur.
- Thus in life it is before all things useful to perfect the understanding, or reason, as far as we can, and in this alone man's highest happiness or blessedness consists, indeed blessedness is nothing else but the contentment of spirit, which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677), Part IV, Appendix, IV.
- Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. We do not enjoy blessedness because we keep our lusts in check. On the contrary, it is because we enjoy blessedness that we are able to keep our lusts in check.
- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677), Book 5, Proposition 42, as translated by Samuel Shirley, Complete Works (2002), p. 382
- Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
- For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!- Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey at In These Times (10 May 2004).
- Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed,
Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes
Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.- Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 589.
- Amid my list of blessings infinite,
Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."- Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night IX, line 497.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71-72.
- 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
- John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health (1744), Book IV, line 260.
- Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
Adversity is the blessing of the New.- Francis Bacon, Of Adversity.
- Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
- Deuteronomy, XXVIII. 5.
- O close my hand upon Beatitude!
Not on her toys.- Louise Imogen Guiney, Deo Optimo Maximo.
- To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd,
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.- Homer, The Odyssey, Book VII, line 95. Pope's translation.
- A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.- Monckton Milnes, The Men of Old, Stanza 7.
- God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim,
Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall
Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him,
High towering over all.- James Whitcomb Riley, God Bless Us Every One.
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