Hans Urs Von Balthasar

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.