To Disturb, To Upset

See also: Anguish, Anxiety, Worry.

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The Very Troubled Apostles, Jesus Calms the Storm - James Tissot

All turmoil harms Wisdom because it is peaceful, since it comes from God. Trouble, on the contrary, does not come from God, because worries, anxieties, and doubts are works of the Evil One to disturb the sons of men and to separate them from God.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• God is Peace, and if you want to walk in the path of God, you must clear your spirit, your Heart, and your flesh of everything that is not Peace and brings with it trouble.
• Everything is trouble for the Soul that is being worked on: curiosity, reckless zeal, intransigence as well as excessive pity.
• All turmoil harms Wisdom because it is peaceful, since it comes from God. Trouble, on the contrary, does not come from God, because worries, anxieties, and doubts are works of the Evil One to disturb the sons of men and separate them from God.

In the Other Works of Maria Valtorta

Notebooks from 1945 to 1950

• Catechesis of February 18, 1947: Now, if you project onto this episode (Temptation of Jesus in the desert) the reflection of your own humanity because you cannot admit that one might not feel troubled inwardly by an external Temptation, because you cannot admit that the Christ himself, the Saint of God, could have been tempted from outside without feeling any inner trouble, then it is you who give this coloring to the episode.