All Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
- Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Faith
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell… Ancient
- If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one… Both
- The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. Inner
- Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. Center
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment… Apostolic
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners… All
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is… Beautiful
- Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not… Act
- Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which… Absence
- St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is… All
- The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits… All
- The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Composed
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such… Chooses
- When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can… All
- The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs. Age
- But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the… All
- There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love. Absolute
- If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in… Fact
- Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,… Abandonment
- No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time… Apply
- Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and… Bathed
- We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities,… Apart
- Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally… All
- A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. Anew