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Theme: Virtues, Christian Qualities, and Human Qualities · Page 2 of 3

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GRM 174.9 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

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.

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Gospel of Matthew 6, 22-23

Mt 6, 22-23 : The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be in the light; but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how great will be the darkness!

This point has already been made in EMV 6.7.

GRM 176.4 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

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Quotation

You call Me Messiah and Lord. You say you love Me and you praise Me. You follow Me and that seems love. But I solemnly tell you that not everyone amongst you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven with Me. Also amongst My earliest and latest disciples there are some who will not enter the Kingdom, because many will do their own will or the will of the flesh, of the world, of the demon, but not My Father’s. Not those who say to Me: “Lord! Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but those who do the will of My Father, They will be the only ones to enter the Kingdom of God.

GRM 180.5 · Volume 3

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

speak to them in parables, so that, while seeing, they may see only what is illuminated by their will to adhere to God, and while listening, always through the same will of adherence, they may hear and understand. See! Many hear My word, few adhere to God. Their spirits lack goodwill. Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them: “You will hear with your ears and will not understand, you will look with your eyes and will not see”. Because these people are hard-hearted; their ears are hard and their eyes are closed, so that they may not see and hear, that they may not understand with their hearts and convert, that I may cure them. But you are blessed because your eyes see and your ears hear, and because of your goodwill!

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Why do you speak to them in parables?

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Book of Isaiah 6, 9-10

Is 6, 9-10 : He said: "Go and tell this people, 'Hear, but do not understand; see, but do not understand. Harden the heart of this people, and make their ears hard, and stop their eyes, so that they may not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor be converted, nor be healed.

Gospel of Matthew 13, 10-17

Mt 13, 10-17 : The disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" He replied, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but not to these. To the one who has, it will be given, and he will have plenty; to the one who doesn't have, even what he has will be taken away. If I speak to them in parables, it's because they look without looking, and listen without hearing or understanding. So Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled for them: You may listen, but you will not understand. No matter how you look, you will not see. The hearts of these people have grown heavy: they have become hard of hearing, they have closed their eyes, lest their eyes should see, their ears should hear, their hearts should understand, they should be converted - and I will heal them. But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear! Amen, I say to you: many prophets and righteous men have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it; to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.