Home » Quote » Dietrich Bonhoeffer » „Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.“ „Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Related quotes „Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.Nobody said when.“ — Margaret Atwood „“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” 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.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.“ — Groucho Marx „Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of the devotees.“ — Sai Baba of Shirdi „When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.“ — Walt Whitman „our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.“ — Karen Blixen „I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.“ — Walt Whitman