The Beatitudes of Jesus with a twist of E. Stanley Jones

E. Stanley Jones, the great Methodist missionary to India, develops the Beatitudes this way (The Christ of the Mount).

• Blessed are those who are the renounced in spirit and suffer for others and thus become the meek who inherit the earth (p. 75),
• The renounced in spirit gain the kingdom of heaven (p. 71),
• The mourners gain the kingdom of inner comfort (p. 71), 
• The meek gain the earth. So the world above, the world within, and the world around belong to this man. Wanting nothing he inherits all worlds. (The Christ of the Mount, p. 71).
• Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness and are merciful to others, and thus become the pure in heart--these see God." (p. 75).
• Having renounced themselves they are in a position to speak the authoritative word and breathe the authoritative spirit in self-asserting, and here chasing, human situations (p. 76)
• The kingdom of heaven only really belongs to the renounced in spirit as they become the persecuted peacemakers (pp. 78-79).
• The renounced in spirit and the pure in heart are not called the sons of God until they become lovingly aggressive and become peacemakers (p. 76).
• The peacemakers must get used to the sight of their own blood (p. 77).
• He who has learned the secret of using pain is now safe, for he can stand anything that can happen to him.  He snatches the club from the hand of circumstances which would smash his head and turns it into a baton with which to lead the music that breaks forth from within (pp. 80-81).