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

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....

Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open field....

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of....

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

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