Heart

See also: Soul.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ, with both hands on his heart - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.

In the Gospel, Jesus says: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• Healing of the heart of Simon the Zealot: I do not know if I should tell you that you performed a greater miracle in healing my flesh gnawed by illness or the soul burned by resentment.
• This is what is needed near the Saint, against the demon and the world: the hearts of mothers.
• Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
• He who closes his heart to his brother, closes his heart to God and God to him.
• What contaminates man is what he has in his heart, and which from the heart rises to the lips and head and corrupts the thought and speech and contaminates the man whole.
• Working the hearts: You are impossible to work on. Warmth of love, patience of instruction, coldness of reproaches, fatigue of the chisel, nothing works on you.

In other works by Maria Valtorta

Notebooks of 1943

• Catechesis of the evening of August 12: Often, you resist the currents of grace and the invitation of God who desires to enclose you in His heart. You believe you are happier, freer, masters of yourselves by remaining outside. No, my poor children. Happiness, freedom, mastery are inside the heart of God. Outside, there is the trap of the flesh, the trap of the world, the trap of Satan. You believe you are free, but you are bound like slaves to the oar. You believe you are happy, but worries alone are already misfortune. And then there is everything else. You believe you are masters, but you are servants to everyone, servants of yourselves in your lower part, and you derive no joy from it, even if you struggle to procure it for yourself. I give joy, for I give peace, for I give continence, for I give resignation, patience, every virtue (p. 222).