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


Foley - God Doesn't Always Heal Wounds, Uses Them For Holiness; Example of St. Therese

Now it has to be understood that her sensitivity was not taken away. In fact Pauline says in the beatification process that in Carmel she wa...