Turning Ourselves into Gifts

“The modern world insidiously brings back forms of self-enslavement from which Western society had largely escaped during the Christian centuries.” – René Girard
 
 
 
 
“Our gratitude for the gift of ourselves must tend toward fashioning our whole existence into a word of thanksgiving. It will remain a lifelong task; but that does not mean that it should be abandoned as impossible.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar