1. "A Franciscan Benediction"
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Philip Yancey, Prayer
2. "With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
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Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
3. "Living should be perpetual and universal benediction."
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Quote by Wei Wu Wei
4. "benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned"
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Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
5. "hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction."
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Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
6. "He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up."
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Bruce Sterling, Twelve Tomorrows 2014
7. "As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now."
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Colin Meloy, Wildwood
8. "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!"
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Henry Miller, Nexus
9. "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."
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E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
10. "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."
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L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest