For the moral teaching of Jesus was a challenge that could not be evaded.

"The peacemakers are pronounced blessed, they namely who make peace first within their own hearts, then between brethren at variance."

Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul...

No attribute of God is more often referred to in the Old Testament than His mercy.

So the blessedness of those who hunger and thirst depends on the assurance that they shall be filled.

Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever.—ISAIAH 60:21.

The pleasures of each generation evaporate in air; it is their pains that increase the spiritual momentum of the world.—ILLINGWORTH.

The blessing of the Old Testament was prosperity, but the blessing of the New Testament is adversity.—BACON.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness.

Unless the moral ideals of Jesus are as valid today as when first they were spoken, Christianity is not what it claims to be...

Perhaps of all the Beatitudes this last is the most obvious and requires the least explanation.

What is the Peace-loving Temper or Attitude?

We must wonder how it is that a thing, so absolutely inconsistent with Christ’s teaching as war is...

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”—ST MATTHEW 5:8. What is it to see God? This is the last question left to us in...

Absence of Moral Contamination

What are we doing to help and serve our fellow-men?

Christian pity in relation to animals

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”—ST MATTHEW 5:7. We have dealt with the attitude, the double attitude, of...

Sensibility to suffering has greatly increased in modern times.

Blessed Are the Merciful