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    blessedness


    1. fulfilled in blessedness and in much joy


    2. that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness


    3. 58 (Blessedness of the Saints)


    4. 11 For that which is to be shall be the object of desire; And for that which comes afterwards shall we hope; For it is a time that passes not away 12 And the hour comes which abides forever; And the new world comes which does not turn to corruption those who depart to its blessedness; And has no mercy on those who depart to torment; And leads not to perdition those who live in it


    5. 3 And peace and tranquility existed at that time4 And wisdom was heard in the assembly; And the riches of understanding were magnified in the congregations5 And the holy festivals were fulfilled in blessedness and in much joy


    6. 12 For he said that he had sinned so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place


    7. 7 This blessedness comes to them who are the elect by God through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom be glory world without end


    8. sweet and blessed transformation, the blessedness of peace, union with God, the condition before the Fal , the


    9. the journey of the people of Israel from the land of slavery to the land of freedom is the story of every soul, from the life of sin to the joy of liberating repentance, to the blessedness of the children of god


    10. 1 That evening Jesus' message regarding marriage and the blessedness of children spread all over Jericho, so that the next morning, long before Jesus and the apostles prepared to leave, even before breakfast time, scores of mothers came to where Jesus lodged, bringing their children in their arms and leading them by their hands, and desired that he bless the little ones

    11. isles of Blessedness are smiling, and the sunny shore of


    12. Who can tell the blessedness of all this while we are yet in the body? Here in this world we do not realize the completeness of our justification, and "groan, being burdened," by reason of our imperfect sanctification


    13. Who can fully describe the blessedness of this enclosure?


    14. Who indeed can describe the blessedness of a real spirit of faith? Or rather, who can tell the misery that unbelief has brought upon the world? Unbelief made Eve eat the forbidden fruit,�she doubted the truth of God's word: "Ye shall surely die


    15. To hear sin cried down, and holiness cried up, to hear Christ exalted, and the works of the devil denounced,- to hear the kingdom of heaven and its blessedness described, and the world and its emptiness exposed; to hear this week after week, Sunday after Sunday, is seldom without good effect to the soul


    16. Seeing her in reverence before the deity, he could discern the serenity of her beauty and thanked Him for the blessedness that life had bestowed upon him


    17. In time, as the poojari handed him the ornaments, Raja Rao adorned Sandhya with the coral necklace and enlaced Roopa’s nape with that pearl chain, all with a feeling of blessedness


    18. enabled to travel only by the blessedness of the great God’s awakening


    19. tell me the one way by which I may attain to the state of blessedness


    20. He is the blessedness that results from yagya and

    21. Oh, the blessedness of a bright spring morning without a lieutenant! And was there ever such a hopeful beginning to a day, and so full of promise for the subsequent right passing of its hours, as breakfast in the garden, alone with your teapot and your book! Any cobwebs that have clung to your soul from the day before are brushed off with a neatness and expedition altogether surprising; never do tea and toast taste so nice as out there in the sun; never was a book so wise and full of pith as the one lying open before you; never was woman so clean outside and in, so refreshed, so morally and physically well-tubbed, as she who can start her day in this fashion


    22. That small unimportant thing, that small weak thing, the thing he had generously endowed with the great gift of life and along with that gift the chance it would never have had except for him of re-entering eternal blessedness, the thing he had fed and clothed, that had eaten out of his hand and been all bright tameness--to bring disgrace on him! Disgrace outside before the world, and inside before his abased and humiliated self


    23. Who but knows the inward peace that descends upon him who makes good resolutions and abides with him till he suddenly discovers they have all been broken? And what does the breaking of them matter, since it is their making that is so wholesome, so bracing to the soul, bringing with it moments of such extreme blessedness that he misses much who gives it up for fear he will not keep them? Such blessed moments of lifting up of the heart were Priscilla's as she sat in the churchyard waiting, invisibly surrounded by the most beautiful resolutions it is possible to imagine


    24. While she was with him he overpowered her into a torpor, into a shutting of her eyes and her thoughts, into just giving herself up, after the shocks and agonies of the week, to the blessedness of a soothed and caressed semi-consciousness; and it was only when his first letters began to come, such simple, adoring letters, taking the situation just as it was, just as life and death between them had offered it, untroubled by questioning, undimmed by doubt, with no looking backward but with a touching, thankful acceptance of the present, that she gradually settled down into that placidity which was at once the relief and the astonishment of her aunt


    25. O let us have the blessedness of those whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered; of that man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile


    26. ’ - That is, I have not found so great an instance of confidence and faith in my power, even among the Jews, as this Roman, a Gentile, has shown himself to possess…’Many shall come from the east and west’ - Men of every description, of all countries…The rabbins represent the blessedness of the kingdom of God under the notion of a banquet…”With Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob’ - In the closest communion with the most eminent followers of God…’Shall be cast out into outer darkness’ - As the enjoyment of that salvation which Jesus Christ calls the kingdom of heaven is here represented under the notion of a nuptial festival, at which the guests sat down in a reclining posture, with the master of the feast; so the state of those who were excluded from the banquet is represented as deep darkness; because the nuptial solemnities took place at night


    27. It has become in modern times an established canon, that whenever a nation believes in a future world, they will found that belief on the immortality of the soul, and will accordingly expect eternal blessedness for the good and eternal suffering for the evil


    28. If the former, there was a public indication of future blessedness for the integral humanity— involving a 'resurrection’ or a 'change’ of the physical manhood


    29. The plain indications of faith in a survival of souls in death, many of them in a state not blessed, nor leading to blessedness, adds force to the impression given by the fore-cited passages announcing Judgment


    30. We acknowledge that the associations of holy blessedness and sinful misery occasionally, as in the cited passage, come forward into vivid prominence in the use of the terms life and death; and not only that, but also that other secondary associations of these terms and their correlatives, such as the ideas of force and liveliness, of weakness and torpor, of a spiritual and of a carnal condition, occasionally are made prominent in the use of the words, as perhaps in such passages as these: 'Quicken you me in thy way’—Psalm cxix

    31. The popular belief of modern Jews is generally favorable to the eternal survival of all souls and the eternal blessedness of those souls


    32. Others believe in the survival, and blessedness or misery of the soul


    33. Paul affirms, as a reason for the resurrection of the body, surely the same indwelling operates to the blessedness of the surviving spirit


    34. In clearing up this question, so important in its bearings on the main controversy, let it be understood that we offer no denial of the self-evident fact that the term life, as used in Scripture to describe the present and future states of regenerate men, does include the associated ideas of holiness and blessedness, arising from a new relation to God, a spiritual resurrection resulting from redemption (Rom


    35. And seeing that they, according to the condition of their own nature, were not sufficient to endure forever (diame>nein ajei<), bestowing His grace upon them in addition, He did not simply create the human race, as He did all the irrational animals upon earth, but He formed them according to His own Image, bestowing on them also the endowment of His own Reason; so that, as it were, possessing certain shadows of the Logos and becoming rational, they might be able to continue (diame>nein) in blessedness, living the true life of saints in Paradise


    36. It is taken as proved that men must live forever, and then it is argued with different degrees of confidence to be contradictory to what is known of Divine Justice and Mercy that they should suffer forever: whence it follows, more or less certainly, that Divine Wisdom will restore them to blessedness again


    37. Between the fall of Adam—and the force of circumstances—and the cheapness of vicious indulgences,—and the bias of heredity—and the difficulty of knowing whom to believe—Jesus or Mohammed, Paul or Rousseau, John or Voltaire—a hopeful case must be made out forevery man; and if GOD Himself should 'judge the world in righteousness,’ He must unsay all the ancient threats of exclusion from future blessedness; and; after some fatherly chastisement of 'dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and lovers and makers of lies,’ must receive them with open arms to paradise


    38. Will it not give to the joyful voice of Christianity a new energy, when it has learned to proclaim through Christ the promise of individual life in conscious union with Deity, as the eternal blessedness of the righteous? You will never succeed in persuading the 480,000,000 Buddhists that man already possesses by nature an indissoluble soul; for it is the first principle of the Buddhist that the soul can be dissolved; and his second that separate existence is so miserable, that the highest object of hope is to lose individual being, and to be absorbed in the all


    39. Dr M'Neile says, "The more common opinion is, that this is the final dispensation, and that by a more copious outpouring of the Holy spirit it will magnify its self, and swell into the universal blessedness predicted by the prophets, carrying with it Jews and Gentiles, even the whole world, in one glorious flock under on Shepherd, Jesus Christ the Lord This is reiterated from pulpit, press, and platform


    40. The Olympic victor, I said, is deemed happy in receiving a part only of the blessedness which is secured to our citizens, who have won a more glorious victory and have a more complete maintenance at the public cost

    41. In the nature of single blessedness he would one day take unto himself a wife when Miss Right came on the scene but in the interim ladies' society was a conditio sine qua non though he had the gravest possible doubts, not that he wanted in the smallest to pump Stephen about Miss Ferguson (who was very possibly the particular lodestar who brought him down to Irishtown so early in the morning), as to whether he would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea and the company of smirking misses without a penny to their names bi or triweekly with the orthodox preliminary canter of complimentplaying and walking out leading up to fond lovers' ways and flowers and chocs


    42. Even if we loved some one else better than—than those we were married to, it would be no use"—poor Dorothea, in her palpitating anxiety, could only seize her language brokenly—"I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love


    43. speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness


    44. ‘For the last time I say to you- turn all your attention upon yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in passion but in your own heart


    45. The source of blessedness is not without us but within


    46. Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source of blessedness which


    47. The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labor- idleness- was a condition of the first man’s blessedness before the Fall


    48. If man could find a state in which he felt that though idle he was fulfilling his duty, he would have found one of the conditions of man’s primitive blessedness


    49. To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it may convey, is a blessedness


    50. But yet all his life he loved humanity, and suddenly his eyes were opened, and he saw that it is no great moral blessedness to attain perfection and freedom, if at the same time one gains the conviction that millions of God's creatures have been created as a mockery, that they will never be capable of using their freedom, that these poor rebels can never turn into giants to complete the tower, that it was not for such geese that the great idealist dreamt his dream of harmony










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    Synonyms for "blessedness"

    beatification beatitude blessedness rapture happiness bliss tranquillity

    "blessedness" definitions

    a state of supreme happiness