Hans Urs von Balthasar
Jean Pierre de Caussade
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Yves Congar
C.S. Lewis
Henri de Lubac
Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (1953)
- God
- We should always be "hearing [the] wellspring of our origin in God"
- We are more in God than in ourselves
- Holiness is "enduring God’s glance"
- God "builds his temple" in our soul
- In Purgatory we will know that we are finally going to overcome our sins
- In the end, God will fill all things
- God is to us "what the air is to the birds and the sea to the fish" (St Francis de Sales)
- Man
- Parting
- Be "open toward heaven" rather than "closed toward earth"
- Our actions like a child's, used by God
- Death necessary for our fulfillment/completion
- Christ
- Clash between “to be” and “ought to be” shows our limitations, is reconciled in Cross
- Christ radically present in all creation, greatest condescension in the Eucharist
- All Christ's actions in His humanity are signs of spiritual realities
- All human life illumined by the Sacred Humanity of Christ
- Jesus' life and sufferings are a direct revelation of the interior life and intentions of God
- “Omnitemporality” of Christ - every moment of His human life is eternal
- Christ wholly universal and wholly concrete, is simultaneously in every human situation
- Christ's sufferings both temporal and supra-temporal; He suffers until the end of time
- Christ not afraid of suffering because "from all eternity he is absolute dependency"
- Water and wine: all human activity/inactivity taken up and transformed, offered to the Lord
- We should always be "hearing [the] wellspring of our origin in God"
- We are more in God than in ourselves
- Holiness is "enduring God’s glance"
- God "builds his temple" in our soul
- In Purgatory we will know that we are finally going to overcome our sins
- In the end, God will fill all things
- God is to us "what the air is to the birds and the sea to the fish" (St Francis de Sales)
- Be "open toward heaven" rather than "closed toward earth"
- Our actions like a child's, used by God
- Death necessary for our fulfillment/completion
- Clash between “to be” and “ought to be” shows our limitations, is reconciled in Cross
- Christ radically present in all creation, greatest condescension in the Eucharist
- All Christ's actions in His humanity are signs of spiritual realities
- All human life illumined by the Sacred Humanity of Christ
- Jesus' life and sufferings are a direct revelation of the interior life and intentions of God
- “Omnitemporality” of Christ - every moment of His human life is eternal
- Christ wholly universal and wholly concrete, is simultaneously in every human situation
- Christ's sufferings both temporal and supra-temporal; He suffers until the end of time
- Christ not afraid of suffering because "from all eternity he is absolute dependency"
- Water and wine: all human activity/inactivity taken up and transformed, offered to the Lord