Balthasar - Be "open toward heaven" rather than "closed toward earth"

 Je dois m’ouvrir du côté du del plutôt que de mefermer du côté de la terre : “I must open myself up on the side of heaven rather than shut myself off on the side of the earth.” CONSUMMATA

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

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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...