Sentences with phrase «means blessedness»
The word beatitude means blessedness, or the highest happiness.
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The God we imagine is the God we want, who can give us what we want, and this means a personal God who takes notice of us and guarantees us a blessedness that transcends the limits of nature.
«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?
Meanwhile, the picture's final revelation of his blessedness comes not in his celebrated kindness to animals, but in the appearance of stigmata that, by themselves, are meant to sanctify the soft, half - whispered platitudes of a Shakespearean cast - off in a tunic and tights.