“Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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American writer of comic fantasy 1957Related quotes
“Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."”
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher
Charity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
"I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed."
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961, UN speech
Context: Ladies and gentlemen of this Assembly, the decision is ours. Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can — and save it we must — and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and, as peacemakers, the eternal blessing of God.
“Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.”
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Matthew 5:4.
Tyndale's translations
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
With each beatitude the gulf is widened between the disciples and the people, their call to come forth from the people becomes increasingly manifest. By “mourning” Jesus, of course, means doing without what the world calls peace and prosperity: He means refusing to be in tune with the world or to accommodate oneself to its standards. Such men mourn for the world, for its guilt, its fate, and its fortune.
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Beatitudes, p. 108.
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 407).
“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Heber J. Grant (1856–1945) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Grant (1945) in: " Last conference talk as LDS Church President http://www.moroni10.com/General_Conference/Heber_Grant_Final_Talk.html", 116th Annual General Conference, April 1945
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers