Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. With each beatitude the gulf is widened between the disciples and the people, their call to come forth from the people becomes increasingly manifest. By mourning Jesus, of course, means doing without what the world calls peace and prosperity: He means refusing to be in tune with the world or to accommodate oneself to its standards. Such men mourn for the world, for its guilt, its fate, and its fortune.

p. 108. - Discipleship (1937) - The Beatitudes