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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman | posted 7/17/2007 08:18AM

BLESSED are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4

"BLESSED are those who mourn" is, paradoxically, a more necessary message than "Rejoice in the Lord always," because there can be no ...

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Anonymous

Posted: July 24, 2007 10:34 PM

My husband's been fighting cancer now for the last 3 years with the last few months really excruciating with him having high dose chemo and it leaving more deteriorated than ever. Low blood platelets, non functioning kidneys and poor hearing and he's not quite 50 years old yet. We have a 10 year old daughter and early in the school year this last year she experienced the coldness of a "friend" to our situation. She was so hurt. I thought it was because of the lack of value for family life today and her own mother's indifference to this girl's father. We really need to teach how precious life in all it's forms is - family life, a life of faith in God and the commitments therein. It's shallow to think the cliche' "life goes on" attitude after someone dies. These ones are precious to someone and not just of passing notice.

Anonymous

Posted: July 18, 2007 9:01 AM

coltakashi is wrong. Jesus comforted me with his presence and teaching before I was mature enough to follow doctrine and be a mature disciple;before I could identify with his suffering. Jesus took pity on me while I was still a great sinner and while I was spiritually very poor; and He came into my life because he is wonderful and kind and loving and generous to those who mourn, to those weeping because they are just wretched while he is kind. I was wretched - God comforted me. So now I can identify with the suffering of Jesus after he led me into the deeper things of his Truth: What glory. I was blessed from the beginning not just because I was a good disciple, which I was not. Too often people put heavy burdens on others, expecting them to be perfect disciples and be perfect in doctrine. One of the things that God taught me from his own heart is not to be perfectionist but to realize we are treasures in clay holders. A light to life because we are fragile yet contain a great treasure

rdonaghy@optusnet.com.au

Posted: July 18, 2007 4:37 AM


A blessing to all who reads the material. GOD bless & keep up the good work.

Anonymous

Posted: July 17, 2007 9:35 PM


It came at a time when I needed comforting. I was mourning not for someone dear who has passed away, but for an event in my life that shook my faith in God as a loving Father. Thank God for modern prophets and angels, His messengers to the faint hearted.

George T.

Posted: July 17, 2007 6:16 PM


Trully to "STIR HEART AN MIND."It did so to me. I can not add any further comment except that you bless us more often with such spiritual and inelligent selection of thoughts.

coltakashi

Posted: July 17, 2007 1:49 PM

I think Flora Slosson Wuellner approaches the original intent of the Savior's statement in his sermon on the mount. The Beatitudes are not generic blessings that come to individuals who are hungry, who are poor, who mourn. Rather, like the blessing for those who are persecuted for His sake, all the blessings relate to being disciples of the Master. Those who mourn are those who view the suffering of Christ in Gethsemane and in His journey to the cross and feel the intensity of what the Son of God did for us. We are comforted by the message of the resurrection and His invitation to look forward to becoming joint heirs with Him in the presence of our mutual Father, as he affirmed to Mary Magdalene outside the tomb. Every other mourning is then enfolded in the same blessed comfort of promised reunion and eternal life.

Anonymous

Posted: July 17, 2007 1:38 PM

The scripture itself is perfect: Blessed are those who mourn BECAUSE THEY WILL BE COMFORTED. Anyone who has had the joy of being comforted by God personally knows deep blessedness. God cares for his people, and even when people's pain is hurtful to a tender heart God steps in and personally comforts. Therefore, blessed are those who are comforted by the God of all confort. What joy and what stirring adoration this brings to the sufferer when they are being tenderly comforted by God. I feel like singing!

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