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God Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.
- 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…
- 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…
- Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
- Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine…
- Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
- Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and…
- In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the…
- The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a…
- 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…
- God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment…
- Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi