The appropriate response is thank you. You can assume that if someone is saying that, he or she has your well-being at heart. From their point of view, they're hoping that God, the highest power ...

Remarkably, Reagan’s first inaugural, in 1981, ended with a relatively simple “God bless you, and thank you.” His second, in 1985, signed off, “God bless you, and may God bless America ...

And thank God, sure, that we no longer live in a world where the pope (Gregory I in 600 AD, to be exact) is imposing on us the responsibility to bless one another to protect us from dying from the ...