B Quotes
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“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.”
“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.”
“Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“Blessed is he who has a keen Memory – Reminiscences are Friends, Teachers and even Weapons.”
“Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.”
“Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it!
How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn
by noble force through the sour mud-swamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows; draining
off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream. How blessed for the meadow itself, let the stream and its value be great or small!
Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens
him to all nobleness,--to all knowledge, 'self-knowledge' and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins. Knowledge? The knowledge that will hold good in working, cleave thou to that;
for Nature herself accredits that, says Yea to that. Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working:
the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be
argued of in schools, a thing floating in the clouds, in endless
logic-vortices, till we try it and fix it. 'Doubt, of whatever
kind, can be ended by Action alone.”
Source: Past and Present
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”
“Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.”
Source: Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley
“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”
“Blessed is he who keeps his hands from doing evil.”
“Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrongful actions, but perceives the order of immortal and ageless nature, how it is structured.”
“Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present life, not allowing it to be blotted out by the dusk of sin and ignorance. In this way he will truly be able to put to flight the cunning demons that rise up against him.”
“Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.”
“Blessed is he who takes off his filthy garment, to put on a new clean robe.”
“Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.”
“Blessed is he who turned many souls from sin.”
“Blessed is he who will not be offended”
“Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”
Source: Poems
“Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.”
“Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.”
“Blessed is that family where there are old people, says an ancient proverb, and happy the children who heed the counsel of the old, for it's as if they had already enjoyed a long life. Love your grandparents, children, for they love you as the sons and daughters of their sons and daughters, and hence with a double tenderness. If you see they love your company, don't leave them alone, and when it's their birthday, never forget to with them many happy returns, 'A hundred more happy returns, Granny and Granddad!”
Source: An Italian Education
“Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.”
“Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!”
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
“Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.”
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.”
Source: Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
“Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists ...: no. 1. Corot. no. 2. Correggio. no. 3. Bellini. no. 4. Cellini. no. 5. Abbey. no. 6. Whistler
“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”
Source: The writings of John Burroughs
“Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.”
Source: Tom Brown at Oxford
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such
“Blessed is the man who “takes the risk of a decision” —
asks himself the question: “Would it solve the problem?
Is it right as I see it? Is it in the best interests of all?”
Source: Complete Poems
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2)But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
“Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.”
“Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.”
“Blessed is the nation whose gospel is goodness and religion is service.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard,”
“Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.”
“Blessed is the one whose mother is still alive and for whom a prayer she recites reaches the heavenly skies, which even the angels oblige.”
“Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. It’s brings great reward to those who believe, trust and obey the Holy instructions.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Blessed is the person who has passed the teachings of secrets. That person knows the source of life as well as his goal.”
“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.”
“Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.”