"To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends."

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Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the Lamb which is led.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar