In Western religions morality is linked to the belief that God sees into our hearts.

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Morality in Western religious thought is tied to inner intentions, since God is imagined as knowing and judging the heart. This view means that outward acts are not the whole story; the motives and thoughts behind actions matter just as much. For example, Christian teaching often highlights that Jesus teaches the moral significance of inner states—such as anger or lust—showing that God judges more than just outward behavior. Similar emphasis appears in Judaism and Islam, where sincerity before God and the purity of one’s intention are central to moral life. Because of this, the belief that morality is linked to God seeing into our hearts is true in Western religious contexts. The other choices would contradict this long-standing emphasis on inner motive as part of moral evaluation.