To Encourage, Encouragement
Jesus: "Sometimes a word of praise, of encouragement is worth more than a thousand reproaches (...) Souls must be supported, not overwhelmed." [1]
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"
- Jesus to Margziam, about Judas: "Sometimes a word of praise, of encouragement is worth more than a thousand reproaches. Do you not know that out of one hundred very bad cases, reported as relatively good, at least half become truly good because then, after my well-meaning word, there is no lack of help from the good who would otherwise flee the individual reported as perverse?
Souls must be supported, not overwhelmed. But if I am not the first to support them, to veil what is bad, to arouse in you good will and aid for them, you would never give yourselves to them with an active mercy. Remember, Marziam..." [2]
In the other works of Maria Valtorta
Notebooks of 1943
- Catechism of August 14: I am God and I do not need intermediaries, that is true. But precisely because I am perfect in all things, in intelligence as well as in love, I know how necessary this is for you to encourage you and make you feel to what extent I love you. Thus, asking your collaboration to accomplish my wonders is not a sign of weakness on my part or incapacity to operate alone, but a proof of love and intelligence (See the note on the site).
I love you so much that I humble myself to ask your help. I understand you so well that I know this request encourages you more than anything else.[3]
Lessons on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans
- Lesson no. 29: The voice of Conscience could be called "Voice of God himself speaking inside man", - it is another form of help, not only to encourage the will to do good Actions or to refrain from doing bad ones, but also as a source of repentance that urges man to repair the evil committed, so that he may regain the Grace of God, lost through sin.[4]