Sentences with phrase «beatitude means»

The word beatitude means blessedness, or the highest happiness.

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That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands — which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time.

Lord, once again I ask: which is the more precious of these two beatitudes, that all things are means through which I can touch you, or that you yourself are so «universal» that I can experience you and lay hold on you in every creature?

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

The beatitudes, and all the descriptions of the new man contained here, are meant to describe what God's will is for one who has chosen the kingdom of God, now breaking in upon men.

Thus the meaning of the Beatitudes is approached philosophically only by the idea of a nonanalytic liaison between the work of man and the contentment susceptible of satisfying the desire which constitutes his existence.

Thus the beatitudes teach us the meaning of discipleship, a meaning that can never be understood in purely theoretical terms but rather in the joy and suffering of living life in union with God, the constant lived reality of dying in order to rise again.

The beatitude that follows is not meant as a whack at Thomas, the doubter.

The addition is intended to restrict the Beatitude to the group of those who are inwardly oppressed by the course of things, and thus it runs counter to the original meaning of the words as given by Luke.