Balthasar - God "builds his temple" in our soul

Oh, the tirelessness of God’s love! Day by day to come personally into my soul, visiting it in human form just as men visit one another, in order—if the soul permits it—to build up his temple there, stone by stone, and not from a distance but with his own hand, as it were.

Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (1953), chapter titled God


Lewis - Death is Unnatural; We fight it in this world although we know it's defeated in eternity

[W]e follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus—not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for th...