Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy."
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Blessedness
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Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness."
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"Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness."
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"Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God."
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"Blessedness is within us all."
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"Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."
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"There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever."
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