Matthew 5:1-10

“See here at what a low price God sets heavenly things. It is but hungering and thirsting. ‘Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, buy without money’ (Isaiah 55: 1)….All that is required is to bring an appetite. Christ ‘hath fulfilled all righteousness.’ We are only to ‘hunger and thirst after righteousness’…. The invitation of the gospel is free. If a friend invites guests to his table, he does not expect they should bring money to pay for their dinner, only come with an appetite. So, says God, It is not penance, pilgrimage, self-righteousness I require. Only bring a stomach:
‘hunger and thirst after righteousness.’”—Thomas Watson

“These people hunger and thirst, not only that they may be righteous…but that justice may be done everywhere…. Satisfied with neither personal righteousness alone nor social justice alone, they cry for both: in short, they long for the adventof the messianic kingdom.”—D.A. Carson