"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.“


-Hans Urs von Balthasar

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

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