For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
Above all love
A hidden inheritance
- of Francesco Arista and Antonella Molica
Argument
- → If I am benign and omnipotent, and I allow it, the malignity of the world implies your superiority to it, your divinity.
- → If I, God, love you and allow you to face such a difficulty, my correctness implies that you are immense, divine, similar to me.
- → Orienting, turning, voluntarily directing the mind, knowledge, attention towards God, towards the presence and point of view of God, implies realizing how much you have ignored and neglected God, and recognizing the emptiness of the world.
Recurrences in the text
- → I love you.
- → If you want it, you know that I love you.
- → Have faith, believe in me.
- → Whoever recognizes the difference between God and the world knows well who he is and to whom he belongs.
- → I can use and I already use everything for your best good.
- → Trust me, even when you don't understand right away.
- → Accept everything and look.
- → The knowledge of the contrast between my omnipotent and loving nature, and the enormous malignancy of the cosmos, shows you what I have given you from the beginning, my nature.
- → The world is ruthless, and every ruthless spirituality does not know me well and does not testify me.
- → A serene faith is worth more than absurd or unbalanced sacrifices, rigid forms or hard rules.
- → Those who know me love me, don't fear me.
- → The need for infinite love that I have placed in you does not find a valid correspondence in the world.
- → Orienting, turning, voluntarily directing the mind, knowledge, attention towards God, towards the presence and point of view of God, implies realizing how much you have ignored and neglected God, and recognizing the emptiness of the world.
- → For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
- → A time of recollection and solitude strengthens the mind and detaches you from the dust of nothingness.
- → If you don't have the strength to seek and see what's always true, you can't have meaningful relationships.
Relative arguments