Religion
See also: Faith, conviction, Religious Practices.
from Latin ligare, religare: to bind, to reconnect Set of rites, practices, prayers by which a people or a society customarily express their bond to God, to the divinity, or to the sacred.[1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- As long as the world exists, there will always be phases of growth and decline of Religion. But even when it seems dead, it will nonetheless be alive.[2]
- The Roman Religion.[3]
- It is from God that I come like all others. For He has placed the capacity in the The Spirit of all men and, among the wisest, a superior intelligence that makes them truly seem like demi-Gods by a power that surpasses the limits of humanity. Yes, because it is He who made them write these truths which are already Religion if not divine like yours, at least moral, and capable of keeping Souls "alive" not for the duration of the stay here, on the earth, but forever.[4]
- The diversity of Religions, and the work of God.[5]
- The Religion of Virtues practiced heroically predisposes the Soul to the true Religion and to the knowledge of God.[6]
- Here, in this region where so many races have mingled, there is a tangled skein of Religions. So tangled that... they are nothing more than impracticable Religions, frayed remnants of Religions that serve no purpose anymore. In the middle, rigid and uncompromising, the Jewish Religion which, by its weight, breaks the already worn sons of the others without gaining anything.[7]
- Religions, religious ideas consequently, are love, thought and the desire to go where the One or those in whom we believe, whom we love and desire, are. (Bartholomew to Aurea Galla, devoid of all religious culture).[8]
- A Religion is necessary to man, just as faith is necessary, faith being the permanent state of man, and unbelief an abnormal accident.[9]
- True Religion consists in this, […] To live, in a word, as men and not as beasts, out of respect also for oneself.[10]
- It is only from love that God can draw from Creation, and this love, which is intelligent and free only among the Angels and men, is the glory of God, the joy of the Angels, the Religion for men.[11]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
The Notebooks of 1944
- Catechesis of January 10: There is a thread of truth in all revealed Religions, deposited by me (The Holy Spirit, who is the one who irrigates and fertilizes). Moreover, like the powerful outburst of an eternal spring, I overflow on all sides from the Church of the Christ, and through Grace, the seven gifts and the seven Sacraments, I transform the Catholic faithful into servants of the Lord, chosen for the Kingdom, sons of God, brothers of Christ, gods whose destiny is so infinitely sublime that it deserves sacrifice to possess.[12]