“I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary.”
“There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.”
Oft repeated: see John Campbell "Nye Bevan" (Richard Cohen Books, 1997)
1950s
"The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, Part One"
Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
“I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”
Letter to a Roman Catholic, July 18, 1749, The works of the Rev. John Wesley (1872), London, Wesleyan Conference Office, vol. X, p. 81. https://books.google.com/books?id=TZBKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22continued+a+pure+and+unspotted+virgin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn7srt5I_NAhUUU1IKHUlzC-AQ6AEIUTAH#v=onepage&q=%22continued%20a%20pure%20and%20unspotted%20virgin%22&f=false
General sources
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“God bless pop music and God bless MTV.”
MTV Video Music Awards 2010.
Abençoem-se antes um ao outro, é quanto basta, pudessem ser todas as bênçãos como essa.
Source: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), p. 175
Martin Luther as quoted in Tappert, Theodore G. (1959). The Book of Concord: the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, p. 595
Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
