God's gifts

7.8 What is reason? A gift of God. God can therefore give it as He wishes, to whom He wishes and when He wishes. Reason in fact is one of the things that makes you more like God, the Intelligent and Reasoning Spirit. Reason and intelligence were graces given by God to Man in the Earthly Paradise. How full of life they were, when Grace was alive, still intact and active in the spirit of the first two Parents!

The Book of Jesus Ben Sirach states: “All wisdom is from the Lord, and it is His own forever”. What wisdom, therefore, would men have had, had they remained children of God?

• A state of grace before the sin - Original sin
• Adam and Eve
• Bible - Book of Ben Sira the Wise - Ecclesiasticus or Sirach
• Children of God - Sons of God
• Earthly paradise
• God's gifts
• Reason
• Spirit
• Thanks
• Wisdom

The gift of God must increase our goodness. The more we receive from Him, the more we must give. Because the more we receive, the more obvious it is that He is with us and within us. And the more He is with us and within us, the more we must endeavour to reach His perfection.

• Charity
• God's gifts
• Having God within us
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Sanctification
• Service
• Words of wisdom

The treasures of God are opened for those who believe in Him and in His powerful bounty.

• God's gifts
• God's goodness
• Trust in God

I had all the gifts of God, in My condition of Immaculate. I did not know I was such. But the gifts were active in My soul, and gave Me spiritual strength.

• God's gifts
• Immaculate Conception
• The Virgin Mary

We always act so that you may receive solace from us, not dismay and increased sorrow. All we need is that you trust us. It is enough if you say with Joseph: ‘If Jesus is left with me, I have everything’ and we will come with heavenly gifts to comfort your spirits.

• Comfort - Relief
• Communion of saints
• God's gifts
• Pain and suffering
• Trust

Both our own and other people’s lives are the gift of God and only God, Who gives life, has the authority to take it.

• Death
• God's gifts
• Life
• Life and death
• Words of wisdom

Life is a gift, a gift to be loved. But what gift is it? A holy gift. So love it holily. Life lasts as long as the flesh holds out. Then the great Life, the eternal Life begins. A Life of blissful happiness for the just, of malediction for the unjust. Is life a purpose or a means? It is a means. It serves for a purpose which is eternity. Then let us give life what is required to make it last and serve the spirit in its conquest. Continence of the flesh in all its lusts, in all of them. Continence of the mind in all its desires, in all of them. Continence of the heart in all human passions. Infinite instead is to be the ardour for heavenly passions: love of God and the neighbour, obedience to the divine word, heroism in good and virtue.

• Continence
• Eternity - Eternal life
• God's gifts
• Goodwill
• Heroism
• Life
• Obedience
• Passions
• Service
• Words of wisdom

• Doing Good
• God's gifts
• To be good
• Words of wisdom

• Charity
• Chastity
• Detachment - Counting
• Discipleship - Following Jesus Christ
• Envie
• God's gifts
• Heaven - Paradiso
• Heroism
• Holiness
• How to perfect and sanctify yourself
• Humility
• Kingdom of God - Kingdom of Heaven
• Lamb of God
• Life
• Love
• Pain and suffering
• Sacrifice and immolation
• Sanctification
• Sensuality - Pleasure of the senses - Enjoyment
• Servant of God
• We are useless servants

• God's gifts
• Work