Maria Valtorta (Itália, ano 1897-1961) - Obra: "Notebooks 1943"Jesus says:
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I could terrorize sinners with a tremendous apparition in which the irate God who judges and punishes appeared. And I have sometimes done so to conquer individual hearts-which I truly wanted for Myself and which I could master only by that means. But those are rare cases.
I prefer to attract with Love. And Love is not felt by someone with a blameworthy love with the devil.
That’s why I do not show my Face, which is all love, to the throngs. I reserve it for those who love Me, giving them the mission of speaking to the deafest, repeating my Word, asking them to become little copies of Me: Charity and Redemption, the One in love and the Victim. "For all I will come one day. The last one. But only those whose souls will have been purified in life by love will be able, without collapsing into the abyss, to bear my Face, my Look, and my Voice, whose thunder will shake the firmaments and make the abysses tremble."
[Maria Valtorta comments:] Yesterday morning, after having written the words of Jesus and described the vision in my own words, I offered this prayer: "O Jesus, why don’t You show everyone how divinely beautiful and divinely good You are? If men saw You as I see You, they could not fail to understand your infinite Goodness and love You with a love which would make them good. Marta
[Maria Valtorta's caregiver] would like You to show your irate Face to cause fear. I, however, ask You to show your loving Face to conquer as You have conquered me."
And Jesus replied, "It would be useless. Love is not understood. If I appeared like that, some would deride Me and some would flee Me. Didn’t you also do that? For years and years you escaped from Me. And yet I always appeared to you under the aspect of love in dreams and inspirations. In other years you were always afraid of my manifestations, and when I approached, you acted like my Servant and Prophet of old: you hid your face so as not to see Me. I had to prepare you with infinite patience, and even now at heart you are a little afraid that this is a deceit. And you have my peace! Consider what those who do not have my peace but demoniacal war in their hearts would do…."

 

 
Vide também Vida e Obra de Maria Valtorta
Nota sobre a fonte: Maria Valtorta foi uma mística católica italiana. Durante sua vida, ela foi agraciada com revelações de Jesus Cristo sobre o Evangelho, e também de Nossa Senhora, do Espírito Santo e de vários santos e anjos.