The Grain of Wheat Quotes

“Adoration is love overwhelmed by the beauty, the power, the immense grandeur of the loved object. Love then falls into a kind of faint, into a full and profound silence. It is also the final effort of a soul that is overflowing and can no longer speak.”   ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms

“God is so wide that, within his spaciousness, even the longing for unfulfillable longing can soar freely.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms

“To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms