What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“When everything is blocked off,' I was told by a dear friend who lives in Erfurt, "one must try to live in… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
Faith means the fundamental response to the love that has offered itself up for me. It thus becomes clear that faith is ordered primarily… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar Copy Share
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
“For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share
