Top 69 Quotes About Benediction: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Benediction

#1. Bond swallowed. He looked over towards Vesper. Felix Leiter was again standing beside her. He grinned slightly and Bond smiled back and raised his hand from the table in a small gesture of benediction.

Ian Fleming

#2. She quickly exited the room, hearing the echoes of the mastiff's angered barks fade behind her down the hallway. As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now." At

Colin Meloy

#3. To us, our house was not unsentient matter
it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Mark Twain

#4. Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.

John Pearson

#5. Like us, our children crave the blessed benediction: "You are good!" But the Bible says that because we are not good, those words no longer apply to us. We're not good.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#6. Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore De Balzac

#7. He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up.

Bruce Sterling

#8. Both males took a deep breath. And then Wrath put his hand on top of Xcor's head, as if in benediction. Looking up, the King sought Layla out with his blind eyes. "You should be proud of your male. This is no small thing for a warrior." She brushed at her eyes. "Yes." Wrath

J.R. Ward

#9. Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."
Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her mother's nightly benediction: Sleep with the angels. But then he added words her mother never had: "Then come back to earth and sleep with your devil, who would burn in hell for one night in your arms.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Rain, rain, rain. Like a benediction from some vast inscrutable hand, long withheld, finally given. The blessed, wonderful rain. For rain meant grass, and grass was life.

Colleen McCullough

#11. It is really a miracle how you have managed to be so miserable, so thirsty, when it is raining all over. You have really done the impossible! Everywhere it is light and you live in darkness. Death is nowhere and you are constantly dying; life is a benediction and you are in hell.

Osho

#12. Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it.

Louise Penny

#13. I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. It was you, you who brought me the pardon. Pee on me, won't you. It would be like benediction. O, what a sleepwalker I have been!

Henry Miller

#15. What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.

Sarah Smiley

#16. For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

Pablo Casals

#17. Hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction.

Alexandre Dumas

#18. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

William Wordsworth

#19. And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Donna Leon

#20. At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

E. M. Forster

#21. Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

Alexander MacLaren

#22. When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

T. S. Eliot

#23. Now I must listen again to Claude's set piece on menu terms, as if he's the first ever to spot these unimportant absurdities. He lingers on "pan-fried." What is pan but a deceitful benediction on the vulgar and unhealthy fried?

Ian McEwan

#24. I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

Branch Rickey

#25. With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#26. JHVH is no longer the national God of Israel. The Talmud guards against the very suspicion of a "Judaized God" by insisting that every benediction to Him as "God the Lord" must add "King of the Universe" rather than the formula of the Psalms, "God of Israel.

Kaufmann Kohler

#27. It was your little white soul I tried to keep near me- even when life was at its loudest and every intellectual idea of God seemed the sheerest mockery. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benediction

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction. "Dear God, I beg of you only one thing. Let me join the ones I love. Carry me to them, unite me with them, let me see them, let me touch them." And then it all ran together, like a song.

Mark Helprin

#29. As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

Colin Meloy

#30. The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

Kate Chopin

#31. With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.

Jay McInerney

#33. Be a gift and a benediction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

William Shakespeare

#35. 'I promise you calm seas,' " Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, " 'auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.'

Connie Willis

#36. May We Love Ourselves.
May We Love Each Other.
May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come True.
We Are Strong.
We Are Wise.
We Are the Heroines of our Own Lives
-The Heroine's Club benediction

Melia Keeton-Digby

#37. She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

F. Sionil Jose

#38. I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.

Tracy K. Smith

#39. We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

I.L. Peretz

#40. Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.

J.R. Miller

#41. Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.

Richard Mant

#42. benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned

Anthony Doerr

#43. He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#44. He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs.

Mohsin Hamid

#45. Her sigh was a benediction - an ecstatic surety that she was youth and beauty now as much as she would ever know. For another instant life was radiant and time a phantom and their strength eternal - then there was a bumping, scraping sound as the rowboat scraped alongside. Up

F Scott Fitzgerald

#46. Heartless harvest of mine, I'm tired of pissin benediction.
Maybe it ain't healthy, but sometimes I'd rather burn then let you help me.

Aesop Rock

#47. Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

Wei Wu Wei

#48. Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

Michael Foley

#49. V. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction . May almighty God grant us a quiet night and a perfect end. Amen. Short reading 1 Pet 5:8-9 Brothers: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith:

V. Rev. Gregory Bellarmine SSJC+

#50. A Franciscan Benediction

Philip Yancey

#51. I do
sincerely trust that the benediction that is always
awaiting me in my garden may by degrees be more
deserved, and that I may grow in grace, and
patience, and cheerfulness, just like the happy
flowers I so much love.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#52. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

Ramakrishna

#53. May the hair on your toes never fall out!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#54. May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Mother Teresa

#55. may the gods be with you

Rick Riordan

#56. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

#57. May the odds be ever in your favor!

Suzanne Collins

#58. Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

Gay Hendricks

#59. Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.'
Father Ramon coughed.
'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.

Jacqueline Carey

#60. May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

Bob Dylan

#61. Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

S.E. Hinton

#62. Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#63. Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

Robert E.Lee

#64. The Blessing #1:

May your eyes be profitable,
may your ears be dutiful,
may your tongue be insightful,
may your hands be successful.

May your mind be fruitful,
may your heart be blissful,
may your soul be joyful,
may your life be peaceful.

Matshona Dhliwayo