We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar Copy Share Image
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 Image