{"id":1401,"date":"2020-04-24T20:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T14:18:32","slug":"give-me-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"\u00abGive me your heart! \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/predication.net\/wp-admin\/about.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">About WordPress<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/predication.net\/wp-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">predication.ne<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, mystics, poets, the vernacular of the nations, all speak of the heart of man. There is<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">its center, its main activity. Man is as he is his heart. Love resides in the heart. Paul Claudel writes: \u201cLord, he says, \u2018Give me your heart!\u2019 (cf. Proverbs 23, 26). That means: Son, give me what your center, your origin, the guiding principle of your life, your sensory, emotional, intellectual rhythm, the source of your being is\u2026 The prophet says: \u2018I have found my heart.\u2019 What a discovery! Your heart, nothing less than a heart! The core of your personality! \u2026 Something could compare to a burning bush, to a forest that will not burn! \u00bb<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0God\u2019s love and human love<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We have eyes, ears, other senses to come in contact with the visible world, with people. But they see God only those who have a pure heart (Mt 5: 8). The Holy Spirit resides in the heart of man (Gal 4: 6). Prayer is uplifted soul to God. Nevertheless, it is precisely this concept that is difficult to explain. It is difficult to fit into our psychological categories. Other better-known ones often replace it. Some (intellectual direction) replace it with the mind: God pours us a gift faith to reason. Others (voluntaries) think that the heart means instead of a free will, the ability to decide for good, so we connect with God. However, some speak of religious feelings that are like a \u201cbarometer\u201d of our spiritual condition.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And yet we want to say something with the term \u201cheart\u201d more than reason or just will, the less a kind of superficial flare-up of emotion. We want to express the whole person, undivided. The German mystic put it nicely Eckhart: God is true, so we know him by reason, God is an activity, we imitate him by our action. God is but above all He who is (Ex 3:14), and we have to connect with him with all you\u2019re, with all your strengths and abilities, that is, to love him with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind (Mt 22,37).<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Russian theologians and spiritual writers have identified center almost exclusively with \u00abfeeling\u00bb. They openly declare that \u201cReligion is not a matter of reason, but of emotions (J. Nikolin, N. Malinovsk\u00fd), that it is not the true prayer that is in the head, but only that which is in the heart,\u201d that it is the task of the heart to feel everything, what is happening in us \u00bband presence<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">THAT LIFE IS THE LIGHT OF PEOPLE\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Holy Spirit, therefore, is \u201ca barometer of spiritual life (Teof\u00e1n Zatvornik). And yet it would be a misunderstanding<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">if we (and many Western mystics) suspected them of banal sentimentalism. The term \u00abheart feeling\u00bb here it means instead what the Greek authors call \u201cspiritual meaning\u201d. It is the subtle voice of conscience, direct understanding reality, the real purpose, and meaning of life. Even scholastic philosophy distinguishes double knowledge: discursively and intuitively. The first means to think, to explain concepts, to look for reasons. Intuition is direct knowledge,<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">clear as if it were a vision. This is how we know the first principles, so is the experience of conscience: \u201cfeel\u201d directly that something is good or bad. This knowledge tends to be so bright and penetrating that rational reasoning just curls behind it. (Pores, Pascal\u2019s famous sentence: \u00abLe coeur a ses raisonsque la raison ne conna\u00eet pas \u2013 The heart has its reasons, which reason does not justify.) Such a \u201cfeeling,\u201d direct knowledge Truth, mothers have for their children. No wonder their son does not deceive with many words. Even a spiritual person acquires direct knowledge of God, good, the meaning of life. It is, after all, natural. S v. Thomas Aquinas says that man knows \u00abaccording to what is \u00bbwhat is his heart, what is his whole. Therefore, we can wish nothing better than that God, according to the prophet, he removed the stone heart from his chest and gave us a new one heart, sensitive to every shudder of grace. According to Teof\u00e1n Zatvorn\u00edk, this living sensitivity to spiritual values \u200b\u200bis \u201cthe first manifestation of the revival of the soul from the numbness of sin.\u201d \u201cThe heart,\u201d writes B. Vyseslavcev, \u201chas a central place in mysticism, religion, the poetry of all nations \u2026 A man without a heart is a man without the love of religion.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Atheism means ultimately being heartless. \u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About WordPress \u00a0 predication.ne \u00a0 The scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, mystics, poets, the vernacular of the nations, all speak of the heart of man. There is its center, its main activity. 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