"What the Father gives is the capacity to……" — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other."
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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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More Autonomy Quotes
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
— Carrie Brownstein
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
— David Riesman
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
— Denis Waitley
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we…
— Thomas Merton
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While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity…
— Pope Francis
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all…
— Shoghi Effendi
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
— Harold Bloom
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I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the…
— Grover Norquist
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It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and…
— Isaac Asimov
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