"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by……" — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"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 of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."
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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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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 Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement.…
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Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient",…
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The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6).…
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While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
— Anthony Mary Claret
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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed…
— Saint Augustine
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The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded…
— Saint Augustine
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The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is…
— Pope Pius IX
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By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and…
— Pope Innocent III
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The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the…
— St. Jerome
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That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See,…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which,…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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