The Beatitudes
Overview
In these 17 sermons, Robert Eyton preaches on each of the eight Beatitudes. These readable discourses draw out the profound depth of the Beatitudes to show how they provide a complete map of Christian living. For Eyton, the Beatitudes capture the way Christ is calling people to live, by laying down a series of principles to form the “moral faculty” of each person, rather than giving instructions for every circumstance.
Top Highlights
“He came to call men to live every day of their lives as children of the Father; to link their lives on to the unseen world with all its wealth of motive and stores of grace; to live as ‘members one of another’ in relation to others, counting service as the noblest employment of life; to live, as regards self-improvement, the highest life of which each one was capable; to live as men put in trust with talents, with gifts of heart and reason and will.” (Page 1)
“Christ came to teach men how to live—to live in the highest and fullest sense” (Page 1)
“It is the attitude which, in the Presence of God, recognises its entire dependence, empties itself, and is as a poor man, not that it may be feeble, but that God may fill it. It is the virtue which sends a man on his knees bowed and humbled and entranced before the Divine Presence, even in the hour of his most thrilling triumph.” (Page 17)
“it makes him strong, because he is always feeling the true source of his strength, always in touch with his Inspirer.” (Page 18)
“Poverty of spirit is born of the conscious meeting with God.” (Page 18)
- Title: The Beatitudes
- Author: Robert Eyton
- Edition: Second Edition
- Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1896
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Beatitudes › Sermons; Bible. N.T. Matthew › Commentaries; Sermons, English
- Resource ID: LLS:BEATITUDES
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2020-10-06T19:41:33Z