If that qualifies for sainthood, and get me some handcuffs and leather, because it's
beatitude time!
Not exact matches
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.
’37 This incident becomes the most fitting conclusion to the Gospel, for as C. H. Dodd has so well said, «From this moment the company no longer consists solely of the eleven disciples gathered at that particular
time and place; every reader of the gospel who has faith, to the end of
time, is included in Christ's final
beatitude.»
Very important, then, is the recognition that the
beatitudes appear at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, before a single instruction is given, before there has been
time for obedience or disobedience.
It is a long
time since the human race first heard these words of the
Beatitudes.