God

Representation of God the Father - Stained glass window of the church of Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien of Larchamp (35).

But what exactly is God? - God is the Perfection that cannot be attained, God is Complete Beauty, God is Infinite Power, God is the Incomprehensible Essence, God is the Unsurpassable Goodness, God is Indestructible Compassion, God is Immeasurable Wisdom, God is Love made God. It is Love! It is Love!^[1]

God revealed himself to men, through the prophets and through the Incarnation. We can now partially know who He is and what He is.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

The nature of God

Omnipotence of God.^[2]
But what exactly is God? - God is the Perfection that cannot be attained, God is Complete Beauty, God is Infinite Power, God is the Incomprehensible Essence, God is the Unsurpassable Goodness, God is Indestructible Compassion, God is Immeasurable Wisdom, God is Love made God. It is Love! It is Love!^[3]
The true God is Love and Mercy.^[4]
It is true, I judged God inexorable, like many people in Israel. We were taught to believe him thus: the God of vengeances.^[5]
You say that God’s merits are infinite. Everything is infinite in God. But God has no merits in the sense that He has not deserved anything. He has attributes, virtues that are proper to Him. He is The One Who Is: the Perfection, the Infinite, the Almighty. But to merit, one must accomplish with effort something that is above our nature.^[6]
God, the Most High, the Perfect and Infinite Spirit, is Light of Love, Light of Wisdom, Light of Power, Light of Goodness, Light of Beauty.^[7]
I have what God has given me, and which while being in Me is always in God, and no one can snatch it from the hands of my Father or from Me, because it is the same Divine Nature. The Father and I are One.^[8]

The manifestations of God

You heard the voice at the ford of Bethabara and trembled. For the voice of God can be confused with no other, and without a special grace from Him, it strikes down whoever hears it and shakes his heart.^[9]
God is Light […] That is how God is, and that is how I will be when I come to judge you."^[10]
A voice, stronger than thunder, immaterial in the sense that it does not resemble any human voice, but very perceptible to all ears, fills the serene sky of the magnificent April day and it resonates, more powerful than the chord of a giant organ, with a very beautiful tone and proclaims: "And I have glorified Him and I will glorify Him again."^[11]
See the vision of God in Paradise.^[12]

Choosing God

God and Mammon.^[13] and ^[14]
"Do not Tempt the Lord your God."^[15]
Union with God.^[16]
The struggle of God and Satan.^[17]
One must not be afraid of God and flee Him like Adam after sinning, but remember that He is Love.^[18]
There is only one God! But many do not know Him, others know Him poorly. If they knew Him well, they would be like brothers and there would be no injustices, no hatreds, no slanders, no revenges, no lust, no thefts and homicides, no adulteries and no lies. I know the true God, and I have come to make Him known.^[19]

In other works of Maria Valtorta

In the Notebooks

Catechesis of July 1, 1943: "It is not granted to your very limited intellectual capacities, to your embryonic spirituality, to know the mystery of the nature of God. But this mystery becomes more knowable to spiritual souls, among the mass of so-called spiritual souls."^[20]
Catechesis of January 10, 1944: "Against the pure azure of Paradise, I clearly saw the Father, although the features of His face were of an immaterial light. He was of a beauty that I will not attempt to describe, for it surpasses human capacities…".^[21]

In the fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

You, my people, be without fear, do not be afraid. I announced it to you, I revealed it to you long before, you know it well, you bear witness to me. Apart from me is there another God? No, there is no other Rock, I know none.^[22]
Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, because God is love. And love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but it is He who loved us; He sent His Son who offered Himself in sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins.^[23]
The heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament proclaims the work of His hands. Day after day it speaks, and night after night reveals knowledge.^[24]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Many articles speak of it, but it is useful to refer to the first part, first section, on the creed.^[25]

Notes and references

[1] EMV 89

[2] EMV 17

[3] EMV 89

[4] EMV 154

[5] EMV 409

[6] EMV 444

[7] EMV 506

[8] EMV 537

[9] EMV 487

[10] EMV 506

[11] EMV 598

[12] Vision of 01/10/1944

[13] Luke 16:13

[14] EMV 174

[15] EMV 127

[16] EMV 165

[17] EMV 239

[18] EMV 471

[19] EMV 514

[20] Catechesis of July 1, 1943

[21] Catechesis of January 10, 1944

[22] Isaiah 44:8

[23] 1 John 4:7-10

[24] Psalm (18)19

[25] CCC 26 and following

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