beatitude
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Religious folks have words for such spasmodic departures from the everyday, like beatitude, nirvana, ecstasy.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
It also supplies a backdrop of human folly to throw the beatitude of Adam and his robot kin into sharp relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
As he understood it, enlightenment is not a state of permanent bliss and beatitude.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 29, 2017
“Blessed are the peacemakers,” Art II said while reading the seventh beatitude, “for they shall be called the children of God.”
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2017
Through their sufferings in cycles of rebirths they progress towards their final state of impersonal beatitude.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
Virtually from the moment they started writing songs, Jagger and Richards were drawn to darkness: certainly, they were better at depicting decay and decadence than delivering pie-eyed hippy beatitudes.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2018
Every one of Jesus’s beatitudes was fewer than 140 characters, so there’s no reason the faith’s message cannot be delivered effectively in today’s social media era.
From Time ● Mar. 18, 2016
This was a Sermon on the Mount moment, wherein the beatitudes of a new era were laid down.
From Slate ● May 1, 2015
There, East German Bishop Johannes Janicke of East Germany's Evangelical Church preached a sermon based on the beatitudes that had a distinctly contemporary relevance.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not religion, with its glorious dreams crowned with the promised beatitudes of heaven, though martyred saints and prophets have given their lives to confirm its faith and hopes.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
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In Cold Blood
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The Devil in the White City
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"Paradise Lost" by John Milton, Book III
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