What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

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"Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

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"What you are is God's gift to you; what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

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"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

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"What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

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"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

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"A veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota."

- Mother Teresa

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