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 human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with… - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with…
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that … - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that …
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
Love alone is credible. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Love alone is credible.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the powe… - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the powe…
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