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When Helmut Kohl pushed for France and the U.K. to bless reunification, he offered to limit the country’s military.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

“So happy anniversary. God bless you, and God bless the United States.”

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Nearby, Iowa state congressman Eddie Andrews was hanging off the back of a farm tractor draped with stars-and-stripes livery, shouting "God bless America!" at the top of his lungs to crowds headed toward the Mall.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

I was born here, and I love this country, and God bless us is all I can say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

God bless the poor little child,’ I said to your sister, ‘there’s room for him at the forge!’

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

These are from the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus blesses the poor, the meek and the peacemakers, and then calls on his followers to turn the other cheek and love their enemies.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

If California blesses liability for the pace of innovation, other states will feel the pull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

And his mother blesses him with water and basil leaves to keep the bad vibrations away.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

In González’s view, “God blesses those who shake hands with those who need it. I hope that the politicians think of us and give us that helping hand that we need.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

And then—the glory—so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Aboard the popemobile, the smiling pontiff blessed several babies and waved to worshippers, as he made his way from the Arc de Triomphe to Place de la Concorde, where a giant white canopy was installed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

"I have made mistakes, but I have been blessed to be a priest and a bishop over the past 49 years."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

He cast himself as having blessed the increase, saying he told Warsh he might as well vote with a board that was going to act anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Thank you for all the years we were blessed to know and love you, James,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Her gentle smile, her luminous eyes, her rose scented perfume filled me with an inner calm, and I felt blessed.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

It is “twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017

"The nations, not so blest as thee / Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall; / While thou shalt flourish great and free, / The dread and envy of them all."

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2016

"In a land where movement is virtue, where the echo of heels clicking rapidly on pavement is inordinately blest, it is a grand, defiant, and edifying gesture to lie down for six months."

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2015

I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust.

From The Guardian ● May 26, 2014

Oh, my lord," he said, "I didn't know; but with petticoats and a dark night, blest if you know where you are!

From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

Selfless, naive Gretta gives Max her blessing and her rights, and almost immediately he betrays her with another woman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“This settlement is not a vote of support for this merger. It is not a blessing of the broader merger,” Bonta said Monday.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

And when the 1907-built edifice required maintenance, some party members did not view it as a blessing.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

In the end, it must have felt like the greatest blessing.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

"You don't have to tell me. Do you want to know what my blessing was?"

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat