Quotes by : Hans Urs von Balthasar

For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of....

The person who prays and who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the word he desires to worship (in....

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there....

The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself.....

Unavoidably, the life of contemplation is an everyday life, a life of fidelity in small matters, small....

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most....

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises....

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in practical....

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in....