Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.
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. - 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.
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. 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 …
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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