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we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.
- Paulo Coelho

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto
- Robert Asprin

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
- Albert Camus

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
- L M Montgomery

A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'I can't believe what I just saw'.
Then the other man with different credo,
'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'.
- Toba Beta

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
- Bernard Meltzer

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
- Karen Blixen

Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern journalism.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in the Kingdom of Heaven,' he meant not just the poor in spirit (the pious), but the actual impoverished masses of people.
- Norman F Cantor

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
- Leonard Cohen

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the 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

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far,
Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
- Henry Van Dyke

Blessed are those who need no reasons other than their love for the Savior to keep his commandments.
- James E Faust

Blessed are those who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
- Suzanne Woods Fisher

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused,'" Gabriel quoted. "One of the unrecorded Beatitudes.
- Terri Garey

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
- Henry A Kissinger

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
- Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.
- Barry Hughart

Blessed are they who have 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 one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
- Groucho Marx

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
- Ann Landers

They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."
- Kathryn Lasky

Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!
- Anton Lavey

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
- C S Lewis

It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are persecuted because they are objectionable.' It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are having a hard time in their Christian life because they are being difficult.' It does not say, 'Blessed are those who are being persecuted as Christians because they are seriously lacking in wisdom and are really foolish and unwise in what they regard as being their testimony.
- D Martyn Lloyd Jones

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
- James Russell Lowell

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.
- O R Melling

Blessed are the dumbfucks.
- Christopher Moore

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".
- Christopher Moore

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
- Fernando Pessoa

It has to do with seeing God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8).
- John Piper

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
- Camille Pissarro

Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.
- Daniel Quinn

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
- Ernest Renan

Doesn't the bible say "blessed are the pure in the heart, so they shall see God?" when?
Only when there is purity in the heart; a heart peaceful and free from egoism--the "I" and the "mine." Purity of heart and equanimity of mind are the very essence of Yoga.
- Swami Satchidananda

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
- Amy Wilson Carmichael

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
- Bram Stoker

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
- Swami Vivekananda

Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.
- Richard Zimler

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