<Dd> These blessed poor are no longer slaves to the tyranny of things . They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering . Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things . "Theirs is the kingdom of heaven ." </Dd> <P> William Burnet Wright, seeking to avoid a common misunderstanding of the meaning of poverty of spirit, distinguishes those who are "poor in spirit" from those he calls "poor spirited," who "consider crawling the Christian's proper gait ." </P> <Dl> <Dd> There are men who fear to call their souls their own, and if they did, they would deceive--themselves . At times such men baptize their cowardice in holy water, name it humility, and tremble...They are not blessed . Their life is a creeping paralysis . Afraid to stand for their convictions, they end by having no convictions to stand to . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> There are men who fear to call their souls their own, and if they did, they would deceive--themselves . At times such men baptize their cowardice in holy water, name it humility, and tremble...They are not blessed . Their life is a creeping paralysis . Afraid to stand for their convictions, they end by having no convictions to stand to . </Dd>

Seven beatitudes of the sermon on the mount