Knowledge, Foresight, Thought, Revelations, Exegesis
See also: Gratitude, Thanking, Recognizing, Scholars, Science.
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The Spirit of God will speak, and they will understand what the wise themselves will not be able to comprehend. Indeed, the scholars will study the word, the phrase, the manner, the place, the how, the instrument, through which the Word speaks, while those I have chosen will not get lost in these useless studies, but will listen, lost in love, and understand since it will be Love that speaks to them.[2]
In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"
Foreknowledge, Omniscience, Revelations
- Man is created in the image and likeness of God. One of the likenesses lies in the possibility for the spirit to remember, to see, and to foresee.[3]
- Foreknowledge of Mary about the Passion of the Savior.[4]
- The smallest one is the greatest when, with humility, he enters into communication with his Lord, for the Good of the brothers.[5]
- I know everything. The thought of men, as a good thought, is only the reflection of one of my thoughts.[6]
- I do not ignore, as God does not, and I do not ignore, as man. I know future events because I have been with the Father before time and I see beyond time. As a man, free from the Imperfections and limits inherent in Sin and faults, I have the gift of introspection of Hearts. This gift is not limited to the Christ. But it belongs in varying degrees to all who, having attained holiness, are so united with God that they can say they do not act by themselves, but with the Perfection that is within them.[7]
- Judas: "I know it. (Jesus) He is the Son of God. But he is also Man. As such, he may be subject to not knowing secondary things such as a conversion and a return... Master, do you really always, always know everything? I often wonder..."[8]
Understanding, Exegesis, Comprehension
- Man is obliged to know God through recognition and respect for his own reason.[9]
- The Spirit of God will speak, and they will understand what the wise themselves will not be able to comprehend. Indeed, the scholars will study the word, the phrase, the manner, the place, the how, the instrument, through which the Word speaks, while those I have chosen will not get lost in these useless studies, but will listen, lost in love, and understand since it will be Love that speaks to them.[10]
Knowledge, Thought
- Cultivate oneself through knowledge.[11]
- Man is the work of patient progress, the current man, and he will always progress more in knowledge and power, which may be holy or not, according to the will of men. But man did not become wise in one day.[12]
- Only the pure see rightly because there is no sin in them to disturb their thought. But that man does not understand should not frighten you, Maria. God understands and that is enough for Heaven.[13]
- Knowledge is not corruption when it is Religion.[14]
In Other Works of Maria Valtorta
The Notebooks of 1943
- Catechesis of May 13: And now that I have shared with you the reasons why I do not like to talk about it, I will tell you those that make me feel that I am not a naive person taking the fantasies of delirium for supernatural truths and demonic words for divine words.[15]