“Everything that [the human being] and the world is bears traces of God, but, in the end, it never manifests him. There is a certain similarity, but it dissolves in an ever-greater dissimilarity. Everything points to God, but he is the Wholly Other, the Unknown…. It will be either the expression of the creature’s continued aspirations, ever unsatisfied, or else of the fact that God has revealed Himself in a degree far beyond the possibilities of nature.”

Von Balthasar’s