A dictionary
defines blessedness as "felicity of the highest kind;" but because of its material view of creation mankind sometimes conceives of blessedness as merely a state of outward prosperity.
The
Christian Science denomination, or Church of Christ, Scientist, formed in 1879, is "a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing".
The
saying that the leopard cannot change his spots has sometimes been interpreted to mean that one's dominating defects of character are unalterable, or one's physical state unhealable.
