"Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly……" — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"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."
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
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49 Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar has 49 quotes on this site.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In…
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and…
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes…
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years…
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
— Francis of Assisi
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the…
— Teresa of Avila
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces…
— Teresa of Avila
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You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
— Sebastian Bach
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared…
— William Barclay
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
— Karl Barth
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day.…
— Bruce Barton
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