The Eight Beatitudes Of Jesus

When he saw the crowds he went up into the mountain;
and after he sat down his disciples came to him;
and he opened his mouth and began teaching them, saying:

“Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need,
since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.

“Happy are those who mourn,
since they will be comforted.

“Happy are the mild-tempered ones,
since they will inherit the earth.

Lamartine on Muhammad

Alphonse de Lamartine as quoted in Histoire de la Turquie (1854) speaks on Muhammad:

Never has a man set himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was superhuman: to subvert superstitions which had been interposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing.

Never has a mane undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great design no other instrument than himself, and no other aid, except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert. Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world…