Vice, corrupted, corruption
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It happens that the small fault, perhaps a simple omission, a simple weakness, grows ever stronger, turns into a habit and ends in a deadly sin.[1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- The vitiated feeling is simply a morbid deviation of feeling and, like everything that is "illness", feels the need and desire for drugs which are not the simple food that is enough to live, to live well. The vitiated feeling wants extraordinary things to be stirred and to experience the thrill that pleases.[2]
- For, know it forever, God chooses whom He wants and He takes away from those who are undeserving having corrupted their will through pride and disobedience.[3]
- But gold... but gold... The key that opens, the means of corruption, it is the alpha and omega of ninety-nine out of one hundred actions for men. For bread and woman, man becomes a thief. For power he goes as far as homicide. But, for gold, he becomes an idolater.[4]
- It happens that the small fault, perhaps a simple omission, a simple weakness, grows ever stronger, turns into a habit and ends in a deadly sin.[5]
- The guilty man realizes that compared to one who is without sin, his guilt stands out more, with his vices, and in spite, he takes revenge by making suffer the one who is good (Bartholomew).[6]
- And how then does it happen that a woman who leaves indifferent ten men who look at her as a creature similar to them, who even see her as a beautiful work of Creation, but without feeling stirred in them attractions and obscene imaginations, disturbs the eleventh man and leads him to unworthy desires? It is that this eleventh has corrupted his heart and his thought and where ten see a sister, he sees a female.[7]
- Jesus actualizes for His apostles the prophecy of Genesis 3:15, speaking of Judas who will later betray Him, but without telling them his name:
"The most cunning demon slipped into the most corrupt man who could approach the Woman (Mary) and thus, treacherously, bite her (...)"[8]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
Notebooks of 1943
- Catechesis of June 7: I instinctively feel that one or the other dies three days after us and that only the goodness of God and a great, very great will on our part, an untiring, prompt, vigilant will, can make them harmless and sterilize them to counter each new wave of corrupting germs.[9]