It is evident that unbelief is an evil offspring of an evil heart; for the
guileless and pure heart everywhere discovers God, everywhere discerns Him, and
always unhesitatingly believes in His existence. When the man of pure heart
looks at the World of Nature, that is, at the sky, the earth, and the sea and
at all things in them, and observes the systems constituting them, the infinite
multitude of stars of heaven, the innumerable multitudes of birds and
quadrupeds and every kind of animal of the earth, the variety of plants on it,
the abundance of fish in the sea, he is immediately amazed and exclaims with
the Prophet David: "How great are Thy works, O Lord! In wisdom Thou made
them all." Such a man, impelled by his pure heart, discovers God also in
the World of Grace of the Church, from which the evil man is far removed. The
man of pure heart believes in the Church, admires her spiritual system,
discovers God in the Mysteria, in the heights of the theology, in the light of
the Divine revelations, in the truths of the teachings, in the commandments of
the Law, in the achievements of the Saints, in the very good deed, in every
perfect gift, and in general in the whole of the creation. Justly then did the
Lord say in His Beatitudes of those possessing purity of the heart: "Blessed
are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
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