We belong more to God than to ourselves; thus, we are also more in him than in ourselves. Ours is only the way leading to the eternal image of us that he bears within himself. This way is like a carpet rolled out from him to us, a scroll prodiens ex ore Altissimt—“coming forth from the mouth of the Most High”—and we should, like children, learn how to copy it, how to trace the pre-scribed, pre-written characters that have been presented to us. The prescription, the law, is what Love has written out in advance, what Love presupposes and proposes to us that we might. . . become it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (1953), chapter titled God