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Instead, it is the reality that the God-forsaken one experienced in an eminent way because no one can even approximately experience the abandonment by God as horribly as the Son, who shares the same essence with the Father for all eternity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminate the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells—our hair, our fingernails—can't feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When we understand that, our question will change from, "Why do we have to feel pain?" to "What do we do with our pain so that it becomes meaningful and not just pointless empty suffering?
— Harold S. Kushner
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
— Harry S. Truman
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
— Harry S. Truman
I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.
— Heath Ledger
The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
— Leo Buscaglia
Live,love and learn
— Leo Buscaglia
Or you agree with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin when he said, 'We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Jane Goodall
I recall the magic being on set for season one of 'Transparent.' The trans inclusivity of our set was unparalleled at the time.
— Trace Lysette
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
— Aldous Huxley