Beatitude

Now hope seems to correspond especially to the last beatitude, which is: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God," since it is said in Rom. 5: 2: "we ... rejoice in hope of the glory of God." ❋ Unknown (1954)

Hence the last beatitude, which is the term of spiritual perfection, fittingly corresponds to hope in point of its ultimate object, while the first beatitude, which involves recoil from worldly things which hinder submission to God, fittingly corresponds to fear. ❋ Unknown (1954)

On the first point: a beatitude is the actuality of a perfect virtue. ❋ Unknown (1954)

Neither could the needs of any other man whatsoever have merited this union condignly: first, because the meritorious works of man are properly ordained to beatitude, which is the reward of virtue, and consists in the full enjoyment of God. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

But eternal beatitude, which is the reward of good works, is bestowed by God alone: thus Augustine says ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Now all human affairs are ordered for the end of beatitude, which is everlasting salvation, to which men are admitted, or from which they are excluded by ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Objection 1: It would seem that the fifth beatitude, which is that of mercy, does not correspond to the gift of counsel. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Whenever we meet with the positive element of human personality, we experience this feeling of beatitude, which is the aesthetic emotion. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

Christ himself, the objective happiness, is far above a created and formal beatitude, which issueth from him, as the whole is more excellent than the part, the cause than the effect. ❋ 1600-1661 (1645)

All who remember this "beatitude" will be helped to solve many perplexing problems of dress, diet, play, education, philanthropy, morals, and civics. ❋ William H. Allen (N/A)

[410] Those initiated into the Mysteries of Demeter, who, according to the belief of the ancients, enjoyed a kind of beatitude after death. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)

Reply Obj. 3: Hope denotes a movement by way of a relation of tendency to a term, whereas fear implies movement by way of a relation of withdrawal from a term: wherefore the last beatitude which is the term of spiritual perfection, fittingly corresponds to hope, by way of ultimate object; while the first beatitude, which implies withdrawal from external things which hinder submission to God, fittingly corresponds to fear. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Henceforth his soul is vexed by no doubts respecting spiritual truth; he is exposed to no errors of faith; he is elevated to a state of beatitude which is even independent of the performance of good works; and being made a partaker of the unity of the divine nature he knows no further distinction of sects, but regards the true believers of all creeds as brethren. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)

On this supposition it is indeed quite natural for man to have so strong a desire for that vision, that any inferior kind of beatitude can no longer duly satisfy him. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It is this higher kind of beatitude that it has pleased God to grant us. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The attempt was fairly successful, and the result was a passing taste of that self-satisfied beatitude which is the peculiar and enviable lot of very lazy people after dinner. ❋ Unknown (1881)

I felt a kind of beatitude every day increasing in me. ❋ Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte, 1648-1717 (1880)

And here it should be known that the eyes of Wisdom are the two demonstrations by which is seen the truth most certainly; and her smile is her persuasion by which is shown forth the interior light of Wisdom under some veil; and in these two things is felt the highest pleasure of beatitude, which is the greatest good of Paradise. " ❋ Unknown (1902)

Church, through the hands of my pious and beloved confessor, I trust that the virtue of the unction applied to my eyes will close them in peace and perfect resignation to the will of God, and that a most assured hope of a happy immortality will vanquish the vain tyrant fear, that has heretofore enslaved me, and that I may depart like many others equally timid that I have seen, under such benign influences, without "casting one last lingering look behind," and with a pleasing foretaste of that beatitude which is the inheritance of every true Christian. ❋ Unknown (1844)

"The eyes of wisdom are her demonstrations by which truth is beheld most certainly; and her smile is her persuasions in which the interior light of wisdom is shown under a certain veil, and in these two is felt that highest pleasure of beatitude which is the greatest good in paradise." [ ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

That tortured, [downtrodden] soul sings for all things known or unknown, a heart torn open set to face the [torrential], [humbling] pulse of cosmic beatitude. ❋ Jjazz (2013)

[Jim], it's so [wonderful] to see you, the [beatitude] is consuming me!! ❋ Pseudoparalysis (2015)

Adam said [Bo] was [bragging] about his new car Monday and [wrecked] it Tuesday. That's a Beatitude adjustment for you. ❋ Dylan Thomas The Tank Engine (2022)