Sentences with phrase «brings blessedness»

The acceptance of suffering for the right and for Christ certainly brings blessedness to follow (3:14).

Not exact matches

Those failures are no reason to lower the bar of expectation, to foreshorten our aspirations to the goodness needed for eternal life; they are a reason to get up, seek reconciliation, and continue on the journey into the life of blessedness the Holy Spirit, «the Counselor» who brings consolation, makes possible.

Fear, on the other hand, is a dry nurse for the child: it has no milk; a bloodless corrector for the youth: it has no beckoning encouragement; a niggardly disease for the adult: it has no blessing; a horror for the aged: when fear has to admit that the long painful time of schooling did not bring Eternal Blessedness.

And when Jesus tells us the paths that lead to blessedness, we can not bring ourselves to believe him.