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Ingratitude

Theme: Vices, flaws, imperfections, sins, and evil inclinations

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GRM 55.3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

«Very often a worthless person is not satisfied with ingratitude, but goes much further, even to the extreme of ruining one’s reputation, wealth and one’s very life.»

«True. But would that diminish your merit? No, it would not. Even if the whole world should believe in slander, even if you became poorer than Job, even if the cruel person should take your life, what would change in the eyes of God? Nothing. Or rather, something would change. But to your advantage. God, to the merits of your bounty, would add the merits of your intellectual, financial, physical martyrdom.»

Detail

Jesus speaks of the hospitality we should show to pilgrims and the love we should show to our enemies, asserting that it is better to sin "out of kindness of soul and trust than out of defiance and harshness". Indeed, God's blessing will remain on us even if we are harmed. Peter then said:

GRM 184.8 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

If you enclose in your hearts a tiny seed of love for your Most Holy God and for your neighbour, and if you accomplish your deeds guided by love, you will not fail in any of the precepts of the Decalogue. You will not lie to God by means of a false religion of practices but not of the spirit. You will not lie to your neighbour, behaving as ungrateful children, as adulterers, as too exacting husbands and wives, as thieves in business, as liars in life, as violent avengers towards your enemies.