“Success,” says Martin Buber, “is none of the names of God.” The point of Christianity lies in the fact that worldly failure, bankruptcy on the cross, was the pinnacle of Christian fertility. To abandon all personal plans in favor of the incomprehensible will of the Father, to be led “where you do not want” in obedience amidst the spiritual night, to sink into the earth like a wheat grain, this is where the principle of new, worldly incomprehensible fertility lies...
(Hans Urs von Balthasar /1905–1988/, excerpt from the text Path to Clarity)
