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"Although being is not irrational, it is nonetheless always more than what a mind can comprehend just by looking at it. As created being, it is not infinite; yet even as finite being it can never be so exhaustively captured that there is nothing further to grasp. The infinite Creator has equipped it with the grace of participation in the inexhaustibility of its origin. You are never finished with any being, be it the tiniest gnat or the most inconspicuous stone. It has a secret opening, through which the never-failing replenishments of sense and significance ceaselessly flow to it from eternity [(Es hat eine geheime Öffnung, durch die ihm immer neue Vorrätte an Sinn und Bedeutung vom Ewigen her zufließen)]."
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-logic: theological logical theory, vol. 1, The truth of the world (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000): 107, underscoring mine. I was put onto this by Michael Hanby, "Homo faber and/or homo adorans: on the place of human making in a sacramental cosmos," Communio: international Catholic review 38, no. (Summer 2011): 216 (198-236). The quote appears on p. 113 of the German edition of 1987.
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