“What Balthasar wanted may well be encapsulated in a single phrase of St. Augustine: ‘Our entire task in this life, dear brothers, consists in healing the eyes of the heart so they may be able to see God.’ That is what mattered to him, healing the eyes of the heart so they would be able to see the essential, the reason and goal of the world and of our lives: God, the living God.”
– Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Homily at the Funeral Liturgy
for Hans Urs von Balthasar,” Communio 15 (Winter 1988)
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