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A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones ... " and that's it. — Alex Scally

[God loves us, not such as we are by our merit, but such as we will be by his own gift] — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love alone is credible. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Every mystery of life has its origin in the heart. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play. — Miles Davis

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival. — Mildred H. McAfee

Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world. — Chellis Glendinning

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

I think you know by now that I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them. — Hillary Clinton

Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not. — Karen Hawkins

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. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. — A. N. Wilson

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love', — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education. — James Lankford

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others. — Rosemary Mahoney

If you really think you're right, you should tell it. — Cass Elliot

Faith's table is always laid, whether the invited guest sits down or stays away with a thousand excuses and pretexts. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity]. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson — H.W. Brands