After a mother has smiled at her child for
many days and weeks, she finally receives her child’s smile in response. She has awakened love in the heart of her
child, and as the child awakens to love, it also awakens to knowledge: the initially empty-sense impressions gather
meaningfully around the core of the Thou.
Knowledge… comes into play, because the play of love has already begun
beforehand, initiated by the mother, the transcendent. God interprets himself to man as love in the
same way: he radiates love, which
kindles the light of love in the heart of man, and it is precisely this light
that allows man to perceive this, the absolute Love: For
it is the God who said, Let light shine
out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Christ (2 Cor 4:6).
--Hans Urs von
Balthasar,
Love Alone is Credible
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