Examples of beatific

• Then they do indeed ' see ' in an intellectual vision, which is not a beatific vision, however, but a painful one of horror, terror, and despair.

• They aren't sufficient conditions, because we cannot earn or merit the beatific vision by performing them.

• But surely the beatific vision would expand our capacity to love, not limit it.

• For by their very nature evil wills cannot ' learn ' (' improve ', become ' better ') or do the good by choice and reach the intellectual beatific vision.

• The beatific face, the present-yet-absent state, and the process of achieving them seemed difficult or impossible to describe, and mysterious.

• The beatific smile that lit up his face every time he recalled a trip he had made in a jet or helicopter was particularly warming.

• Why is this going to promote a beatific attitude in the coalfields and that spirit of harmony and friendship which we are all so anxious to bring about?

• For some, it is the seat of beatific vision.