The body's lamp is the eye

« It is the eye that looks at God lovingly, whether it cries or laughs, and that for God’s sake fondles and forgives and bears everything, and by the love of God is rendered unassailable to the assaults of Evil, that so often makes use of the eye to penetrate the heart. It is the pure, restful, blessing eye that the pure, the saints, the lovers of God possess.

I said: “The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light. But if your eye is cloudy, your whole body will be all darkness”. Saints possessed this eye which is the light for the soul and salvation for the flesh, because like Mary throughout their lives they looked only at God.

I will explain to you, My little voice, the meaning of My word.»

• Bible - Gospel of Luke
• Bible - Gospel of Matthew
• Chastity
• Light
• Love
• Love of the Virgin Mary
• Memories of God
• Peace
• Purity
• Saints and blessed
• The body's lamp is the eye

• Bible - Gospel of Luke
• Bible - Gospel of Matthew
• The body's lamp is the eye

• Sin
• Sons of Darkness
• The body's lamp is the eye

• Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ - Word of God
• Sons of Darkness
• Sons of Light
• The body's lamp is the eye
• The struggle between light and darkness

• Good and evil
• The body's lamp is the eye
• Words of wisdom

• The body's lamp is the eye

• Acts - Actions
• Doing Good
• God's blessing
• Good and evil
• Lie
• Poison
• Sin
• Sons of Darkness
• The body's lamp is the eye
• The wicked man
• To be good
• Where your treasure is, there your heart will be too

Watch your eyes, men. Both the eyes of your bodies and the eyes of your minds. If they are corrupt, they can but corrupt all the rest. The eye is the light of the body. Your thought is the light of your heart. But if your eye is not pure — because since the organs are subject to thought, a corrupt thought will corrupt also senses — everything in you will become obscure, and a seducing haze will create impure phantasms in you. Everything is pure in him who has a pure thought which causes a pure look, and the light of God descends as a master where there is no obstruction of senses. But if out of ill will you have accustomed your eyes to disorderly visions, everything will become darkness in you. In vain you will look at the most holy things. In the darkness they will be nothing but blackness and blackness will be the deeds accomplished by you.

• Bible - Gospel of Matthew
• Disorder
• Impurity
• Light
• Light from God
• Purity
• Sensuality - Pleasure of the senses - Enjoyment
• Sons of Darkness
• The body's lamp is the eye
• The struggle between light and darkness
• Will

What is adultery? It is to crave for him, who is not ours, or for her, who is not ours. One begins to sin by wishing, continues by seduction, completes it by persuasion, crowns it by the deed.

How does one begin? Generally with an impure glance. And that is connected with what I said before. An impure eye sees what is concealed from a pure eye and through the eye thirst enters the throat, hunger enters the body and fever the blood. A carnal thirst, hunger, fever. Delirium begins. If the person looked at is honest, the delirious looker-on is left alone on tenterhooks, or will denigrate in revenge. If also the person looked at is dishonest, he will reply to the look and the descent into sin begins.

• Concupiscence
• Desire
• Dishonesty
• Honesty
• Impurity
• Libel - Slander
• Purity
• Sin
• The body's lamp is the eye