Quotes about Blessedness
POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.
- Rick Warren
But "To Be Near Unto God" in the midst of busy avocations yields its sweetest blessedness when it is cultivated in the face of sin and the world, as an oasis in the desert of life.
- Abraham Kuyper
What we should see in the real Beatitudes is not merely that the words of Jesus exalt good character instead of bad but that good character brings happiness and bad character brings misery.
- Randy Alcorn
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
- George Eliot
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
- St. Augustine
If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.
- AW Tozer
Whoever possesses God is happy.
- St. Augustine