How To Use Blessedness In A Sentence
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Bored by the duties put upon her by society, her wealth, and widowed blessedness, she had journeyed into the Northland and gone to housekeeping in a cosey cabin on the edge of the diggings.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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In short, can you not be content with such reassuring security and guaranty as this, that the established order vouches for your blessedness in the hereafter?
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For my part, I cannot enough admire the theory of certain modern poets, that an angel is an ethereal being, composed by the interunion in heaven, of two mortals who have been faithfully attached on earth -- and as to "blessedness" being ever "single," either in this world or the next, I do not believe a word about the matter!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
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Christ speaks this word of wholeness and well being and blessedness even to Thomas, who doubts.
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The Lord has come down with mighty power into my soul, and I feel the blessedness of _full rest of soul_ in God.
The Old Helmet, Volume II
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
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We are drawn by the gifts and glamour of other lifestyles, but this psalm says that the epitome of blessedness is to be found with your family around you.
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But all we know of this world will pale before the newness and blessedness of life in the world to come, where sin and death are destroyed forever.
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Those influences of the Spirit which believers now enjoy are at once a prelibation or antepast of future blessedness, the same in kind though immeasurably less in degree; and a pledge of the certain enjoyment of that blessedness.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
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Felix is said of felicitas, that is blessedness; or else Felix as bearing strifes and tribulations of this world for everlasting life.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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His blessedness is here illustrated by a similitude (v. 3): He shall be like a tree, fruitful and flourishing.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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It followed that murderers were banned from temples and other public spaces and could not be initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which meant that they were excluded from blessedness in the hereafter.
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The Scope of Ecclesiastes is to show the vanity of all mere human pursuits, when made the chief end, as contrasted with the real blessedness of true wisdom, that is, religion.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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His dream of future India was that along with material prosperity, which would be hers, she would, as the Queen of Nations, extend the hand of peace and blessedness to all peoples of the world.
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Those influences of the Spirit which believers now enjoy are at once a prelibation or antepast of future blessedness, the same in kind though immeasurably less in degree; and a pledge of the certain enjoyment of that blessedness.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
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Trust is the wish-fulfilling gem, because this is our wish: to dive into the depths of our life and realize our inherent blessedness or good-heartedness.
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What the great gospel blessedness is which we are to hope for -- That believing we shall have life through his name.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The law is thus not made void, but fulfilled. continueth therein -- contrasted with "goeth his way," Jas 1: 24, continues both looking into the mirror of God's word, and doing its precepts. doer of the work -- rather, "a doer of work" [Alford], an actual worker. blessed in his deed -- rather, "in his doing"; in the very doing there is blessedness (Ps 19: 11).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The Sermon on the Mount is, in many ways, an explication of the righteousness of the kingdom, evident even in the blessedness promised in the Beatitudes.
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And when, kneeling, she poured out her soul in prayer, her words seemed so many winged angels, musical with unearthly harpings of an untold blessedness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
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In the Beatitudes, the things that bring blessedness are treasures that last.
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On the third point: hope implies a defect, namely the futurity of blessedness, which will cease when blessedness is present.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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For the next two weeks, unconsciousness was blessedness.
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Her earthly journey is now complete and we pray that her soul abide in blessedness, where there is neither pain nor suffering, in a place much more beautiful than can be thought of by the heart of man.
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The Saviour tells us that it is more blessed to give than to receive, but how many of us are strangers to that blessedness?
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As the foundation of our blessedness is laid in God's choosing us, so the first step towards it is God's making himself known to us.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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As, therefore, we would continually tend towards our rest and blessedness, as we would have assured and evident pledges of it in our own souls, as we would have foretastes of it and an experimental acquaintance with it, (as who would not know as much as is possible of his eternal blessedness?) this is the design which we ought to pursue.
Pneumatologia
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At no point in this eternal journey do I expect to dissolve into god or attain static blessedness.
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Hence this is a leading feature in millennial blessedness (Isa 65: 20, 22). for very age -- literally, "for multitude of days.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Bush, George W., as heeder of invisible bugles, 64; Oedipal complexity of, 64-66; goading laughter of, 66; as frustrated dilettante, 66; as lover of backfiring cars, 66; blessedness of, 66; foreordination of, 128
Who's Who
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A man can therefore merit blessedness, which is eternal life, by his own natural powers and without grace.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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Greek is translated, "waiting for," in Lu 2: 25. that -- Greek, "the." blessed -- bringing blessedness (Ro 4: 7, 8). hope -- that is, object of hope (Ro 8: 24; Ga 5: 5; Col 1: 5). the glorious appearing -- There is but one Greek article to both "hope" and "appearing," which marks their close connection (the hope being about to be realized only at the appearing of Christ).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Thoughts of heaven merely blunted the urge for revolution by its promises of future blessedness.
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
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And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The Genesis account of the Tree of Life reminds us there is only one way to attain to an eternal life of blessedness - the way God has appointed.
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They wallow in those fordid Lusts which they enjoy in common with the Beasts that perish, and despise the Dignity and Blessedness of the Angels of Light.
Heaven the residence of the saints
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If I could tell you how the Convent rises before me as a vision of blessedness -- after life's 'shaky scraw' -- the cool cloisters, the rows of innocent beds, the delicious old garden.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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The souls of such separate themselves from the unlimited love for the sex, and devote themselves to one, with whom they look for an everlasting and eternal union and its increasing blessednesses, as the cherishers of the hope which continually recreates their mind; but it is quite otherwise with the unchaste, that is, with those who do not think religiously of marriages and their holiness.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
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True blessedness is entailed upon the right understanding and due improvement of the mysteries of the kingdom of God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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At sunrise when the red sky is reflected in calm water and the line of the horizon disappears, I have a still, calm sense of blessedness.
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This feeling is our superessential blessedness, which is a fruition of God and all His beloved: and this blessedness is that Dark Quiet which ever abides in idleness.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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The long-flowing lines smile euphoniously, without generating harsh inner tensions, and evoking a serenity appropriate to G major's blessedness.
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This feeling is our superessential blessedness, which is a fruition of God and all His beloved: and this blessedness is that Dark Quiet which ever abides in idleness.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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It's been bruited about by well-known theologians, sharp-tongued satirists and social critics (Mark Twain among others), but it's not really a very subtle point: The life of eternal blessedness sounds boring.
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Their full blessedness is now "from henceforth," that is,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Professor, solemnly examine yourself; 'in proportion to your fruitfulness will be your blessedness.'
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
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The inworking of this blessedness in the case of each believer proceeds solely and immediately from Christ himself, through the word of institution in which the redeeming and communion-forming love of Christ is presented and ever operates as a stimulus to piety.
The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
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The angels said, "Who does not know that the delights of conjugial love exceed those of all other loves? and who cannot see, that into some love are collected all the blessednesses, satisfactions, and delights, which can possibly be conferred by the Lord, and that the receptacle thereof is love truly conjugial, which is capable of receiving and perceiving them fully and sensibly?
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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Note, Though godly people may share with the wicked in the calamities of the world, yet wicked people shall have no share with the godly in the heavenly Canaan; but it shall be part of the blessedness of that world that they shall be purged out from among them, the tares from the wheat, the chaff from the corn, ch. xiii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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According to devotees, pilgrimage to the Nizamuddin shrine enables them to partake of the saint's blessedness.
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In the unity reached by overcoming this divorce of the finite from the infinite lies religious blessedness, perfect beauty, and moral freedom.
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All seek to offer hope, whether phrased as the vision of God, blessedness, eternal life, the greatest good, perfect happiness, or holiness.
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Still, the fathers were in blessedness by faith in the Saviour to come, at death (Heb 6: 15; Lu 16: 22).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The reference to washing, blessedness, and entrance via the gates into a holy city in Revelation 22: 14 all indicate purification.
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But observe, The righteous are called the blessed of my Father; for their blessedness is owing purely to the grace of God and his blessing, but the wicked are called only ye cursed, for their damnation is of themselves.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The enjoyment of God by sight is commonly called the beatifical vision; and it is the sole fountain of all the actings of our souls in the state of blessedness: which the old philosophers knew nothing of; neither do we know distinctly what they are, or what is this sight of
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
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Those who immediately forged and promoted that lie of his being stolen away were justly given up to strong delusions to believe it, and not suffered to be undeceived by his being shown to all the people; and so much the greater shall be the blessedness of those who have not seen, and yet have believed -- Nec ille se in vulgus edixit, ne impii errore, liberarentur; ut et fides non praemio mediocri destinato difficultate constaret -- He showed not himself to the people at large, lest the impious among them should have been forthwith loosed from their error, and that faith, the reward of which is so ample, might be exercised with a degree of difficulty.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Thou teachest "my hands to war and my fingers to fight" [361] against the invisible enemies of my salvation and blessedness; against the enemies of holiness and of the power of Thy glory; against the subcelestial spirits of evil.
My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
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Mansions, in Hospital Palaces of Chambord and Chantilly; peace bought by victory; breaches healed by Feast of Etre Supreme; -- and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues!
The French Revolution
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Since our human nature is fallen, and since eternal blessedness is a gift far beyond the powers and merits of every created nature, it is to be expected that most human beings fall short of achieving that goal.
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Hereby are the faculties of our souls exalted, elevated, and enabled to act primigenial powers, with respect unto God and our enjoyment of him; which is our utmost end and blessedness.
Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect
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At sunrise when the red sky is reflected in calm water and the line of the horizon disappears, I have a still, calm sense of blessedness.
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I'm reluctant to say too much about it, or even to explain it let's just say that a combination of doctorly advice and husbandly heroism and sheer desperation and luck and blessedness probably have much to do with it.
Archive 2009-02-22
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But there will be no unfulfilled desires, and this blessedness will never end.
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.