Quotes by : Hans Urs von Balthasar

Instead, it is the reality that the God-forsaken one experienced in an eminent way because no one can....

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

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps....

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

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present....

The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all....

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

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Nevertheless, in a passage that is very often commented upon because it summarizes the entire salvific....

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