Browsing Quotes With Tag: beatitudes (7)
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Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like, great public schools or health insurance for all.
How about Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,” and so on. Not exactly planks in a Republican platform.
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But often, with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And, of course, that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom?
“Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon?
Gimme a break.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Only if you are pure in heart will you see God, and also in a lesser degree will you be able to see the “god” or good in man and love him because of the goodness you see in him.
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not enough to reach a bland behavioral point when we no longer take pleasure in sin; we must hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Blessedness is defined as being higher than happiness. “Happiness comes from without and is dependent on circumstances; blessedness is an inward fountain of joy in the soul itself, which no outward circumstances can seriously affect.”
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless we are poor in spirit (humble), we feel like we have to defend ourselves. People only attack another person if they feel threatened. God’s law is an inward thing. It deals with the part of us that wants to attack.
Speaker: Gay paraphrazing Patrick DegnSource: Education WeekPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'To be poor in spirit is to feel yourselves as the spiritually needy, even dependent upon the Lord for your clothes, your food, the air you breathe, your health, your life; realizing that no day should pass without fervent prayer of thanksgiving, for guidance and forgiveness and strength sufficient for each day’s need. ... To the worldly rich it is that “he must possess his wealth as if he possessed it not”
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Meekness is disciplined, under control, knowing when to talk and when not to talk. A meek person ACTS—not reacts. He is in control of self and situation. Fear is the opposite of meekness.
Speaker: Ronald BartholomewSource: Education Week 2010, Trying to Be Like JesusPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!