"Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done."

-- Martin of Tours

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“To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.”
“Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.”
“It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways.”
“Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.”
“The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.”
“On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.”
“Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.”
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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