| The ten commandments are the moral covenant of the Old Testament, the beatitudes the moral covenant of the New. |
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| We read Matthew's account of the beatitudes on All Saints' Day, and it comforts us and makes us feel good. |
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| This address, an interpretation of the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount, was in content a praise of the Gospel. |
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| We are still in the perspective opened by the beatitudes proclaimed in the Sermon of the Mount. |
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| This is the mountain on which Jesus Christ, who dwells there forever, will teach them in his own words the meaning of the eight beatitudes. |
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| You don't hear very much from them about the Sermon on the Mount, you don't hear very much about the teachings of Jesus on giving to the poor, or the beatitudes. |
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| And at the same time he taught, and at the heart of his teaching there are the eight beatitudes, which are addressed to people tried by various sufferings in their temporal life. |
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| Jesus has given us the beatitudes to enable us to do the same. |
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| Then their application of the beatitudes toward other people will be an outflow of their own experience in relationship with the overall church community and with the world. |
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| The eight rounded points of the cross represent the eight beatitudes. |
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| The challenges of modern life give new motivations to the mission of consecrated persons, called to live the evangelic councils and bring the humanism of the beatitudes to the field of education and schools. |
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| He sets the Magnificat into the context of Luke's beatitudes and similar motifs in Luke, while he interprets the Nunc Dimittis in its immediate subsequent context. |
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| Standing firmly on the side of the poor, Bloy embraced the Beatitudes ' inversions, rewriting abjection as election. |
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| But we can return to the Beatitudes, which Richard mentioned earlier, to see how Jesus viewed the moral law. |
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| When Jesus in the Beatitudes says that the meek shall inherit the earth, he repeats the psalmist's wishful thinking. |
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| David preached a stirring sermon on the Beatitudes as he reflected on his visit by bus to an African village. |
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| I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. |
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| The Beatitudes should be seen, according to Betz, as an exordium for the entire Sermon. |
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| The Beatitudes and other teachings in which Jesus exhorts his disciples to put all their trust in God have a special meaning in this context. |
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| It was a community that was based on the scriptural principles of the Beatitudes, and it tried to live in a peaceful way with the English. |
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| In the Beatitudes, the things that bring blessedness are treasures that last. |
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| For example, it is possible to study the Beatitudes in Matthew's gospel without actually practicing the gestures of nonviolence based upon this gospel. |
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| The Sermon on the Mount is, in many ways, an explication of the righteousness of the kingdom, evident even in the blessedness promised in the Beatitudes. |
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| Into this place come the familiar words of Jesus and his Beatitudes. |
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| At the end of each chapter, Cook poses soul-searching questions and suggests exercises that will help readers apply the Beatitudes to their lives and their relationships. |
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| If God wanted to judge and condemn us according to preordained values, the laws of Deuteronomy and the standards of the Beatitudes are already a matter of record. |
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