Wisdom from Hans Urs von Balthasar

Mission, then, requires man’s ‘yes’—an act not less important than the act by which God calls his chosen one. For man’s response to the call of God must be no less decisive and unlimited than the call itself. And yet the two words—God’s word and man’s word—are not to be regarded as equal. On the contrary, man’s word is but the acceptance of God’s call and mission—his simple cooperation in the eternal ‘yes’ of God. His answer must be so absorbed into and enveloped by the word of his calling that it forms an indissoluble union with it.

—Hans Urs von Balthasar from Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises