Blessed

Famous quotes containing the word blessed:

““Ye dayntye Nymphs, that in this blessed brooke
Doe bathe your brest,
Forsake you watry bowres,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“That, if I chance to hold my peace,
These stones to praise thee may not cease.
Oh let thy blessed sacrifice be mine,
And sanctify this altar to be thine.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“The first ones ever, oh, ever to know
of the rising of Jesus, his glory to be,
were Mary, Joanna, and Magdalene,
and blessed are they are they who see.”
—Linda Wilberger Egan (b. 1946)