#blessedness

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness. ↗

— George MacDonald

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

— Augustine of Hippo

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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

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

— William C. Bryant

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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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

— Baruch Spinoza

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

— Mason Cooley

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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

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

— Jean Ingelow

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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