Your salvation does not consist in eliminating your ‘I’ but in sacrificing your ‘I’ for others, which cannot take place without pain and the cross.

—Hans Urs von Balthasar

quoted in the book The Meaning of the World Is Love

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LOVE IS THE ANSWER

The Meaning of the World Is Love, compiled by psychologist Richard Clements, brings Balthasar’s meditations to a wider audience, using brief excerpts from the theologian to walk readers through the landscape of divine love, which is our home. The path of love is the path of self-gift—as well as of truth, goodness, and beauty—and it is the only way to genuine fulfillment.

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