QUOTATION: The Community of Spiritual Goods

The selflessness of Christian love founds a kind of communism of spiritual goods, and the more perfectly a Christian develops this selfless love in himself, the more all others can live on his goods as if they were his own.

--Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mary, the Church at the Source, 1980

QUOTATION: The Unconditional Yes

When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.

-- Hans Urs Von Balthasar