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It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in practical behavior. It demands love for God and our neighbor, and does so with such immediacy and unmistakable urgency that it is pointless even to pause before this demand unless we are willing to respond.
It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in practical behavior. It demands love for God and our neighbor, and does so with such immediacy and unmistakable urgency that it is pointless even to pause before this demand unless we are willing to respond.
Approximate author period: c. 1946 AD · modern
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- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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- Approximate author period: c. 1946 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Hans Urs von Balthasar: life dates 1905 to 1988. Wikidata Q122976, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122976 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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