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Hans Urs von Balthasar quote #172 from Prayer

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts however assisted by grace the most we can do through genuine prayer is to make as much room as possible in ourselves and in the world for the kingdom of God so that its energies can go to work. All that we can show our contemporaries of the reality of God springs from contemplation Jesus Christ the Church our own selves.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar quote #43 from Prayer

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship in order to be more single-mindedly at the words disposal will select with great care basic works for his studies which will observe the so-called exactitude of scholarship without losing sight of the most important exactitude namely the ordering of all thought toward prayer.
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