“Someone may counter by saying that traditionally Chinese people prefer to live a long life because longevity is equivalent to beatitude.”

“He then considers the uncertainty of life and contemplates the beatitude of the departed pious.”

“And yet that billboard vouchsafes to one of the novel's minor characters, J. Edgar's ghostly Sister, a vision of beatitude.”

“We read Matthew's account of the beatitudes on All Saints' Day, and it comforts us and makes us feel good.”

“The ten commandments are the moral covenant of the Old Testament, the beatitudes the moral covenant of the New.”

“There was the street of a Thousand beatitudes, which, let us pray, were enjoyed by its founder.”