--- title: "6 Eternal Child Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Eternal Child quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Eternal Child sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_alive_only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its_55021.jpg" --- > [Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-urs-von-balthasar/only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its-essence-is-communicated-by/) [Hans Urs von Balthasar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-urs-von-balthasar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_alive_only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its_55021.jpg) > [What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-aurobindo/what-is-god-after-all-an-eternal-child-playing-an-eternal-game-in-an/) [Sri Aurobindo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-aurobindo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/sri-aurobindo-1257_children_what-is-god-after-all-an-eternal-child-p_868365.png) > [Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-rodrigues/adulthood-does-not-exist-man-is-an-eternal-child/) [Nelson Rodrigues](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-rodrigues/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02b/nelson-rodrigues-14428_adulthood_adulthood-does-not-exist-man-is-an-etern_2063966.png) > [In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/in-every-adult-there-lurks-a-child-an-eternal-child-something-that-is/) [Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/carl-jung-274_adult_in-every-adult-there-lurks-a-child-an-et_2269663.jpg) > [“He’s an eternal child. Sees the world like it should be in a fairy tale, minus the evil characters. Everything is bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-f-white/he-s-an-eternal-child-sees-the-world-like-it-should-be-in-a-fairy/) [C.F. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-f-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/c-f-white-225365_children_he-s-an-eternal-child-sees-the-world-lik_2862865.jpg) > [“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-eternal-child-we-think-that-play-and-fairy-tales-belong-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/friedrich-nietzsche-15_brevity-of-life_the-eternal-child-we-think-that-play-and_3221882.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eternal-child/#itemlist", "name": "Eternal Child Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hans Urs von Balthasar" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-urs-von-balthasar/only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its-essence-is-communicated-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_alive_only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its_55021.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_alive_only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its_55021.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_alive_only-the-christian-religion-which-in-its_55021.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive…” — Hans Urs von Balthasar", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is God after all? 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