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 first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the....

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

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which....

Every mystery of life has its origin in the heart.

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

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

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

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

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