Beatitudes Bible Quotes

#1. No peace and security among mankind - let alone common friendship - can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.

John Locke

#2. The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

George MacDonald

#3. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

Ai Weiwei

#4. I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Paulo Coelho

#5. The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

Henry Miller

#6. High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#7. Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
[Matt 5:4]

Anonymous

#9. [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

Nicolas Chamfort

#10. I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don't have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer

Nikki Rae

#11. Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

Larry Flynt

#12. Curtains always hide something, either the good or the bad! Their job is to hide! If you see a curtain covering up an evil, tear it down and throw it away!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. If you ever wonder whether or not someone is too good for you, I'd advise going through their trash. Really. No one looks superior after that.

Ally Carter

#14. Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.

L. Adams Beck

#15. I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

Annabella Sciorra

#16. Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.

Winston Graham