"To be sure, the response of faith to……" — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"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 a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love."
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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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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
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