Top 35 Quotes About The Beatitudes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Beatitudes

#1. Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

Oscar Romero

#2. If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

Tony Campolo

#3. Look at the commencement of His ministry. In the Beatitudes with which the Sermon on the Mount opens, He speaks: "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Andrew Murray

#4. The Beatitudes are no spiritual "to do list" to be attempted by eager, rule-keeping disciples. It is a spiritual "done" list of the qualities God brings to bear in the people who follow Jesus.

Ronnie McBrayer

#5. Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#7. The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.

James Mikolajczyk

#8. I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Maya Angelou

#9. Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Pope Francis

#10. We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.

Pope Francis

#11. Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#12. All the beatitudes manifest in the sacred-time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.

Cindy Sheehan

#14. I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

Leonard Ravenhill

#16. To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning of the Beatitudes, this cryptic ethical core of Jesus' teaching?

Philip Yancey

#17. The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

James Bryan Smith

#18. In the sacred-time, all beatitudes manifest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth ...
without taxes

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#20. Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover

#21. Blessed are the dumbfucks.

Christopher Moore

#22. High above all earthly lower happiness, the blessedness of the eight Beatitudes towers into the heaven itself. They are white with the snows of eternity; they give a space, a meaning, a dignity to all the rest of the earth over which they brood.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#23. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto

Robert Asprin

#24. Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Groucho Marx

#26. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused,'" Gabriel quoted. "One of the unrecorded Beatitudes.

Terri Garey

#27. Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Amy Carmichael