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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. ↗

— Ed Balls

#change #changed #country #error #had

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong. ↗

— Ed Balls

#horrible #hussein #i #i am #iraq

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#away #both #center #cross #does

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

#being #being judged #condemnation #death #existence

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#because #christian #contained #dogma #dogmas

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beautiful #because #being #call #essences

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty #become #exposes #face #features

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#been #decline #fall #finite #first