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“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.”

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Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“Only that which is given by the unsearchable freedom of love has power to reveal.”

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Author:Hans Urs von Balthasar

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

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Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Nevertheless, in a passage that is very often commented upon because it summarizes the entire salvific economy of faith, the Apostle calls Christ the 'pioneer and perfecter of our faith' (Heb. 12:2), because he has to accomplish the same act as the Christian, only in the opposite direction, as it were. Whereas by venturing to let go of everything the Christian takes a stand beyond finitude and comes into the limitlessness of God, Christ, in order to make this act possible and to be its source, has dared to emerge from the infinitude of the 'form of God' and 'did not think equality with God a thing to be grasped,' has dared to set out into the limitation and emptiness of time. This involved a transcendence and a boundary crossing no less fundamental than that of the Christian, and Christ undertook it so as to entrust himself henceforth within time, with no guarantee or mitigation from eternity, to the Father's will, which is always given to him in the present moment.”

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Book:The Christian and Anxiety

Source: The Christian and Anxiety

“The uneasy conscience that many Christians have, and the anxiety based on it, do not come about because they are sinners and backsliders but because they have stopped believing in the truth and efficacy of their beliefs; they measure the power of faith by their own weakness, they project God's world into their own psychological makeup instead of letting God measure them. They do something that Christians are forbidden to do; they observe faith from the outside; they doubt the power of hope; they deprive themselves of the power of love; and they lie down to rest in the chasm between the demands of Christianity and their own failure, in a chasm that, for a Christian, is no place at all. Is it any wonder that anxiety seizes them on account of this placelessness?”

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Book:The Christian and Anxiety

Source: The Christian and Anxiety

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