“Time is the revealer of love through its manifoldness, through its slow unfurling of millions of possibilities. Time is the fully unfolded intensity of love, since within Time love can take on the meaning of a story, of a process. Even in a purely formal sense — quite apart from whatever happens within it — Time is God’s most glorious invention, as revelation of his patience (because there is always more Time) and impatience (because Time is irreversible).”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1995), 4.
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